Keynote by Ted Leung¶
- Sun Microsystems VP on new tools
- Cloud computing guy at Sun
Status of web frameworks¶
- The status of web frameworks
- Django is the python web framework
- Growth of django jobs is astronomical, but our numbers are still low
- Django jobs increased 692% in 2009!
RIAs¶
- Flex/Flash
- Silverlight
- JavaFX
- Open Web
Latency is a big deal. If your app does not respond in 0.1 seconds, then you have a problem.
Cloud Computing¶
- Began as deploy / operational play
- Will impact development
Competition¶
- Rails have solved the deployment issue
- Lift (Scala) has a lot of neat features like easy Comet support
- Nitrogen (Erlang) has a strong focus on UI.
JavaScript¶
- Bleah, slow
- But getting optimized for speed
What can Django do better¶
- What about an AJAX version of the admin module!
- Django + Comet is a pain in the butt!
- Deployment standards
- Monitoring and building that into the admin!!!
- Suggested stuff that Pinax is doing for best practices
- REST needs to go into core