Hi Alain,
    Thanks very much for writing. Your comments are very helpful. I've
recently purchased WebObjects (awaiting delivery) and have been wondering if
it would be the tool I finally ended up in. I've heard enough reports of a
steep learning curve, that I'm a little nervous, but on the other hand it
seems likely to be a powerful and capable tool once mastered. So your
comment comparing your experience with the two is very interesting.

    I've gone through the 2 tutorials and the design overview and Seaside
seems promising, although it wasn't as crystal clear obvious on the first
read as I might hope.

Thanks for the thoughts,
Randy

on 4/18/02 3:46 AM, Alain Fischer at alain.fischer at bluewin.ch wrote:

> Hi Randy,
> 
> I have made a small Seaside web application (5 pages) with
> authentication and
> upload of file. This is basicaly a simple table wiewer with selection of
> data to show.
> 
> I am not a Squeak power user, but the learning curve of Seaside is
> really fast.
> I have found to be more productive as a Seaside newbie than as a middle
> experimented
> WebObject programmer. This is due to the dynamic programming, I have
> been able to
> correct a lot of bug while my application was running without restarting
> it.
> 
> The quality and ease of fixing bug of Seaside and Squeak make me think
> that doing
> a production web application is not a risky task compared to other web
> solution.
> 
> Have a nice day.
> Alain
> 
> 
> Le Mercredi 17 avril 2002, à 10:33 , Randy Siler a écrit :
> 
>> If any of you can easily speak to any of these questions I'd very much
>> appreciate hearing from you.
>> 
>> 1. I really need to be building a few simple web applications for my
>> department and I would love to use Squeak (because it seems so
>> incredibly
>> elegant and powerful). These apps would be very very simple. Most are
>> just
>> some variation of handle the form data from a web form, maybe do a
>> little
>> "business logic" on it, write some of it to a file or put a record  in
>> FileMaker Pro via say AppleScript, and maybe send a mail confirmation.
>> 
>> Can anyone say, "Sure, don't worry, Squeak can do all of that for you
>> easily
>> and dependably...go ahead and jump in..."
>> 
>> More specifically, are these things easy to learn and do?
>> 
>> I've tried to find these answers by reading and browsing but I don't
>> know
>> enough to have confidence in what I find.
>> 
>> Thanks very much in advance,
>> Randy
>> 
>> 
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