Aug 08

How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer

AJAX, Apollo, Flex, RIA, ScriptingLanguages, SilverLight, WPF1 Comment

This article [1] [1] from Verity Stob [2] [2] at The Register [3] [3] made me laughing!  How true it is in many aspects.

I really liked it all, but I think I will use these two pictures in my next Web2.0 presentation to present the difference between Web1.0 and Web2.0:

Block diagram showing Web 1.0 program architecture Architecture diagram illustrating the confusion inherent in Web 2.0 applications

Of course, I was also laughing (and strongly agreeing) with those other comments:

  • Java Applets ?
    I bet Sun hopes that everybody had forgotten
  • Google Web Kit (GWT)
    Eughh! what were they thinking ?
  • Dojo
    Perhaps come back in a year, if they make a design environment to go with.

As to the last sentence on Dojo, I think that it is really something we may need to consider. We need to hide the complexity [4] [4] of Dojo behind some easy-to-use design environment which would make it possible for more people to enter the game.

  1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/web20_for_developers/
  2. http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Verity%20Stob
  3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/
  4. http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/01/09/dreaming-of-hiding-the-complexity/

  1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/web20_for_developers/
  2. http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Verity%20Stob
  3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/
  4. http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/01/09/dreaming-of-hiding-the-complexity/