February 12, 2008 – 6:49 pm
When I realized that my pro-blogging and book authoring career had run its course (at least for now), I had to look around to see what might be of interest next. For a while, I’ve been interested in Drupal. Why? I don’t know exactly. I like the idea of open source. I like WordPress, but […]
November 19, 2006 – 8:59 pm
If you are a web developer, the answer is almost certainly NO.
I write this knowing it will tweak those people who think that Java still matters to the web development world. But it doesn’t. So sorry.
What technologies do matter for web development?
HTML and CSS
JavaScript
PHP
MySQL
And perhaps:
Flash (but not if Adobe keeps being coy about it)
Why do […]
November 16, 2006 – 12:52 pm
Will Ajax overtake Flash in 2007? More likely, we’ll see a proliferation of web apps and sites that use a combination of Ajax and Flash, as it becomes easier to combine the two and as developers find the best way to use each. We’ll see a bit more Java too in the browser, not necessarily […]
October 10, 2006 – 1:13 pm
I was intrigued to hear about Salesforce.com’s announcement of Apex, their “on-demand multi-tenant Java-like” programming language that allows for arbitrary customization of the Salesforce.com customer relationship management product. To me, the most exciting thing about Web 2.0/Office 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 (or * 2.0 pronounced “star 2.0″ as Coté calls them) is the do-it-yourself web. There are […]
I don’t feel bad that I didn’t attend BloggerCon. The only session I read about that stuck in my mind was the one called “users in charge” that set users against developers. As though developers are all of one mind, of one temperament, of one type. As though developers aren’t themselves users.
The idea that only […]
Is there something you wish you were expert at? Tennis or golf? Web design? Coding with Ruby or Ajax, perhaps Java? Writing, fiction or non? Parenting, maybe? The most exciting news I’ve read recently says that if you want to be an expert and you put in the time and effort, you can do it. […]
You don’t usually see “JavaScript” and “Python” in the same sentence or even in the same article. That’s because they’re most often used for two different purposes by two different kinds of people. JavaScript is usually used within a Web browser whereas Python is used either on the server or as a general-purpose scripting language. […]
February 1, 2006 – 7:57 pm
This is not boring: finding a woman who blogs about tech and a great quote from her husband at the same time. First the quote, from Sun’s Tim Bray via Stephen O’Grady:
What’s Not Boring? · Cellphones aren’t boring (of all the J2*E’s, I like one with ‘M’ the best). Open Source isn’t boring. Dynamic […]
January 1, 2006 – 5:54 pm
Joel Spolsky complains that kids today don’t know how to use pointers and they don’t get recursion. Why? Because all the top universities are switching from C and C++ to Java for their teaching language. Now Spolsky can’t tell the difference between smart programmers and dumb ones. Smart ones, you see, know how to manage […]
December 19, 2005 – 3:26 pm
As a way of learning more about syndication formats and because it’s fun, I’m planning to build a feed filter/synthesizer/remixer. It should optimize my blog tracking too. But I wasn’t sure and still am not sure what programming language and other tools to use. A couple months ago I started learning ASP.NET with C#, because […]
