This post relates to my original blog post regarding my search for a suitable web application framework.

I have chosen to give web2py a thorough whirl.

Surprisingly, I have chosen a framework which I hadn’t considered then and one which is built upon the Python scripting language which I have never used before! My language preference has always been Perl, but I’m venturing out of familiar territory. I am by no means a power user of Perl, but have used it extensively in writing web/CGI/FastCGI and sysadmin code. This will be a challenging experiment … learning to code in Python while learning to build web applications in web2py and growing and running my own business, amongst other things :)

This is why I chose web2py, in no particular order:

• Open source licence
• Built using a prolific, powerful open source programming language
• Super simple to setup! (hell yes!)
• Fast and scalable (apparently)
• Automatically generated database admin pages for applications
• PostgreSQL support
• An opportunity to learn Python
• Authentication libraries included
• Intuitive web based IDE

I will post further discoveries, thoughts and experiences as I proceed.