[Seaside] OT - books on modern web application development

[Colin Putney]

On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 09:42  AM, tblanchard at mac.com wrote:

> None of them are going to cover this.  Seaside's state management is 
> too sophisticated for most and just plain impossible in most of the 
> "popular" languages.
>
> To learn about web application development - get a good book on HTML 
> and CGI, that's the foundation.  Everything else is just variations on 
> a theme.

I'd agree, but give a slight variation on Todd's advice. The two things 
you really need to understand are HTML and HTTP. Once you've got them, 
CGI is really easy to learn just by reading the spec, and you probably 
don't need to bother.

I wonder if there's any advantage to learning Seaside without first 
learning other methods of web programming. For me, the key moment was 
grokking the whole response/request cycle reversal. Once that was 
pointed out to me, I was able to abandon what I new and approach 
Seaside on it's own terms. Might there be a short-cut for people who 
have nothing to abandon?

Colin