Just discovered Python
Over the weekend I met 2 java developers that knew their java. They were working on ideas to do with a website and an android application. They were in charge of designing the the backend of the services. The website and android application would connect to this back end. Instead of writing the back in J2EE they decided to write it in python for performance. Python can execute faster on the server than java.
I have now started learning python to see how much better it is at performance compared to java and php for backend support.
http://www.sthurlow.com/python/
Once I have gone through the tutorial I will rewrite the cabbage text application in python. The open source cabbage text api is written in php. The reason to rewrite the code in python is for performance. The cabbage text api lets you use your webtext messages through your mobile phone. You send the the information to the server through a URL call. Then your server with the cabbage api installed will redirect that information to one of four Irish operator websites where it will login to your account and send a text message through webtext.
If there is alot of requests to send text messages from the server with cabbage texter then php will slow this down. If the code is written in the python then the server execution will be faster. Then the server will be able to handle multiple calls.
Once I am finished I will send the well designed code to the cabbage texter group so other users can download the api.
