Plat_Forms 2007
Overview
An overview of the What, Why, When, Where, Who and How of Plat_Forms 2007
Plat_Forms is an international programming contest. It aims at comparing different technological platforms for developing web-based applications such as Java EE, .NET/ASP, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby-on-Rails.
Why such a contest? Selecting the right technology for any particular software project is very important and there is consequently a lot of discussion regarding the pros and cons of the various platforms. However, much of the discussion is more akin to religious debate than to a rational discussion in an engineering mindset.
The reason: hardly any neutral information is available that allows for direct comparison of the practical (rather than theoretical) effects that each platform will have in your project.
The purpose of Plat_Forms is to change that and to obtain neutral information on practical consequences of using one platform versus the other.
Plat_Forms 2007 took place on January 25-26, 2007, at the "Open Source meets Business" conference in Nürnberg, Germany.
27 professional web developers (9 teams of three) from 5 different countries participated. There were 3 teams using Java, 3 using Perl, and 3 using PHP. There had not been enough applications from the other platforms for including them in the contest.
Read more...
- Some more details about the setup of the contest and its history.
- Detailed Plat_Forms contest announcement ("Call for Participation", PDF)
- The requirements document (describing the task tackled by the participants)
- The list of Teams, the Organizers, the Contest Committee and the Sponsors.
- The Task solved by the teams (PDF)
- The Live Contest Blog archive is currently disfunctional but will return in January 2010.
- The Results of the evaluation
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announcement.pdf | 328.5 KB |
platforms-task.pdf | 275.16 KB |
ttt-questions.txt | 3.77 KB |
PbT.wsdl | 20.68 KB |
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