[Techtalk] developing online shops

[Natalee Thomason]

I have used Django and Rails. I found in Rails, using console to
access the environment and models for debugging was easier. Also, unit
/ functional tests are more straightforward in Rails. Django seems to
have better-organized documentation. Also, both are really easy for
setting up and handling authentication and sessions.

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> From: Sue Stones <suzo at spin.net.au>
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> What language / tools are really useful for developing online shop type
> websites.  I had been thinking of learning Django, but now that I look
> at the books, they are all about developing blogs, so I am not sure how
> well it will adapt.
>
> What is your opinion, what do you use or recomend?
>
> sue
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> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:35:01 -0800
> From: Cynthia Kiser <cnk at ugcs.caltech.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] developing online shops
> To: Sue Stones <suzo at spin.net.au>
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> There are a ton of different ecommerce web site packages so if you are
> not already wedded to a specific language or framework, I would make a
> list of features your site needs to support and then have a look at
> the most popular ones to see how they stack up AND look for one that
> doesn't have so many features you are always trying to take them back
> out because they are in your way.
>
> I am already a Rails developer, so if I needed to do ecommerce, I
> would look at Shopify and ActiveMerchant. If I knew PHP, I would start
> with one of the PHP frameworks.
>
> Quoting Sue Stones <suzo at spin.net.au>:
>> What language / tools are really useful for developing online shop type
>> websites.  I had been thinking of learning Django, but now that I look
>> at the books, they are all about developing blogs, so I am not sure how
>> well it will adapt.
>>
>> What is your opinion, what do you use or recomend?
>>
>> sue
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> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:59:29 +1100
> From: Sue Stones <suzo at spin.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] developing online shops
> To: Cynthia Kiser <cnk at ugcs.caltech.edu>
> Cc: Techtalk <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
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> Thanks Cynthia,
>
> I had done something along those lines originally and forgot what I
> found.  I have now found the original info that encouraged me to look at
> Django in the first place, namely Satchmo.  On the other hand I have had
> a look at Shopify, and that looks fantastic too, and definitely worth
> more investigation.
>
> I know PHP and haven't been that impressed with it, but perhaps I should
> look a little further into that too!
>
> sue
>
> Cynthia Kiser wrote:
>> There are a ton of different ecommerce web site packages so if you are
>> not already wedded to a specific language or framework, I would make a
>> list of features your site needs to support and then have a look at
>> the most popular ones to see how they stack up AND look for one that
>> doesn't have so many features you are always trying to take them back
>> out because they are in your way.
>>
>> I am already a Rails developer, so if I needed to do ecommerce, I
>> would look at Shopify and ActiveMerchant. If I knew PHP, I would start
>> with one of the PHP frameworks.
>>
>> Quoting Sue Stones <suzo at spin.net.au>:
>>
>>> What language / tools are really useful for developing online shop type
>>> websites.  I had been thinking of learning Django, but now that I look
>>> at the books, they are all about developing blogs, so I am not sure how
>>> well it will adapt.
>>>
>>> What is your opinion, what do you use or recomend?
>>>
>>> sue
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