Tom Peters (week 9's reading response)

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This page is for week 9's reading response to Tom Peters' research. For his main page, see Tom Peters. For his research page, see Tom Peters (research page).

My response:

I don't have a quote for this as it's a pretty straight forward book on developing websites using Rails (which I've never touched before). However I do consider this valid research considering over the last few days I've read about 200 pages completely new material to me. So in lieu of critically engaging this, I'll state a few reasons why I've chosen this framework over PHP which I've been using for the last 3 years.

• Rails is an MVC framework (model-view-controller), the code is structured more cleanly. Models are responsible for maintaining the state of the application, views provide the user interface, and controllers communicate between the views and models. Also, I don't have manually query the database, it's automatically handled via models.
• Scalability- one of the thinks SNV will HAVE to do is beable to expand. If we want to compete with sites such as MySpace, and Facebook, we'll have to be able to add features quickly and easily without making sloppy code. Rails allows us the freedom to do this
• Exposure- Rails is still relatively new, it is however a hot buzzword around the web community. These web sites typically show other good sites that feature the Rails framework, we're hoping to make one of these sites.

Works Cited

Thomas, Dave, and Dave H. Hansson. Agile Web Development with Rails. 4th ed. Raleigh: The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005.