I'm a longtime dba with some decent programming experience. Mostly DBA related (PL/SQL,shell scripts,etc..) I have a need to create a simple web application utilizing responsive,single-page application (like AJAX). I'm looking for a recommendation on technologies that are simple and straight forward and would allow me to spin up a web application quickly. I have minimal JAVA and Python skills but quick learner. (about 20 years dba/development experience). From what I know I was thinking DJANGO, Ruby on Rails, etc.. On the Client side JQuery, AJAX, maybe Angular?? I'd like it to be all open source and run on something like Tomcat on Linux. My design will be a "flat" type interface with simple icons. I will be interfacing with a backend Rest API. Any thoughts/tips would be appreciated. Continue reading...
