08-30-2011, 11:28 AM
Snowreap Wrote:you can create web applications in Java using something like Apache Tomcat and/or Apache StrutsYeah, that's what I was thinking. Advantage being I'm already learning Java anyway and it would be something that could be run on Unix, Linux and Windows servers.
I'm curious what's the most popular though. What looks best on a resume?
"Ruby on Rails" seems to be kind of like C#.NET in the sense that "Ruby" is the underlying language and not, in itself, all that useful, but "Rails" is a big open source library of routines meant to make writing web apps easier. Ruby is old -- 1995, but it seems like Rails has been catching on recently. Someone I know applied to a job with Amazon and said that's what they're looking for now: Ruby on Rails developers.
I'm not a fan of Ruby syntax. I guess like anything else, you get used to it, but it's quite a bit different than C and Java.