What is Play Framework ?
Play Framework is a simple and powerful web development framework for Java/Scala. It’s very inspired from Ruby On Rails framework, so it’s like Rails, but for Java/Scala (initially it supported only Java, but now it also supports Scala (a programming language, very similar to Java, with some functional features, designed to be as a better Java)).
Ubuntu (The latest stable version : 11.10(Oneiric Ocelot), released few weeks ago) is one of the most Linux based popular operating system and gradually becoming more popular among programmers and web developers.
Perl is one of the most popular scripting language. It is easy to learn and you can do lot in less amount of code. If you’ve used ruby then there is rails, sinatra, etc, for python Django is there and similarly for php there is cakePHP etc.
If you want to leverage your perl skills in web development then a cool framework might be very helpful, right?
Spring, one of the popular application development frameworks for enterprise Java, used by developers to create high performing, easily testable, reusable code without any lock-in, is now at version 3.2 RC1.
Highlights of Spring Framework 3.2 RC1:
• A new Gradle-based framework build has been added, making it easier than ever to contribute to the Spring Framework project on GitHub;
• I
Ruby is one of the most popular programming language, it’s a scripting language – like Perl, Python or PHP. Ruby is very easy to learn, it’s also very Human Friendly – so for beginners – it’s a good one to begin with.
The now released beta of the next generation of the Ruby on Rails framework was co-developed by more than 250 developers who submitted more than 4,000 commits...
Integrated Development Environment or IDE provides a very convenient environment for software development as it automates a lot of boring/complex tasks.
I asked this question on stackoverflow but it got closed for being of topic.
Maybe it belongs here instead ?
I know it is more expensive to host rails applications.
Scala, a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way, is now at version 2.10.0.
Scala 2.10.0 smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive
Highlights of Scala 2.10.0:
• A class may now extend AnyVal to make it behave like a