The Future of Web Development

CVI-Projects (Canvas|Vml|Image effects)

2007-09-20T04:55:00.000-04:00

CVI-Projects (Canvas|Vml|Image effects)

These are some very cool tools for giving a site a fresh look, if not used to excess.

Web 3.0 and other humourous thoughts

2007-06-12T10:42:00.000-04:00

It's is expected by those technical people who work in the industry that there is humour in the words and notions that spout from the mouths of eager young marketing types who wish to sell the world on the latest and greatest things through meaningless catch phrases and buzzwords.

Identifying the neophytes is easy when they use words like JAVA scripting , though the general public believes the tripe and would miss the silliness of this particular term. We will often see the use of our favourite terms (AJAX and JSON) abused in the name of morphing a site into Web 2.0 compliance. All we can do is sit back and smirk while formulating our own "Executional Mandatories" to ensure a project meets the needs of the client. Though we all know that the EM qualifiers (sorry) are subject to change (aka Scope Creep).

Perhaps Marketing sorts need a dictionary of technical terms, though they'd just find it boring and create new terms to confuse and befuddle in order to make a sale.

Oh well, I'm off to work on a Client Driven Data Management Tool (Microsoft Access) to raise analytical availability (access to information) in our remote services group (a division in the U.S.).

Cheers!

Footnote: There's another descriptive term that seems ripe for abuse, "Core Desire." I'm thinking this particular term reflects on a lack of rational and ethical relationships for the inventor.

Our future, as developers...

2007-01-24T13:42:00.000-05:00

I am not some great visionary of the industry, I'm a low-level coder that endeavours to balance a family life with the requirements of performing a job as a programmer. As with many of us, I can work in different languages because the principles are the same regardless of the cosmetics of the breed of instructions we use.

I, like many of you, have preferences to the manner in which I code. I am not referring to your diet, which is tragically common to the die-hard developer sorts, though I think the days of a steady run of Coke and Pizza are fading. I am referring to the level of formatting, commenting, and intelligence with which we implement our ideas in the form of technology. I also understand the need to adhere to the methodologies of the 'last guy who worked on the project' until someone budgets a re-write or you rebuild in desperation. We may regard the Microsoft Consulting Services methodologies with contempt or adulation, but ether way, we're still committed to doing what we do.

The world-wide-web (WWW) is our playground. We see and steal code and ideas from every site we visit, this is not bad, it is evolution. We learn from each other and from the few books we, as beginners, can afford. We have a need to never lose the ability to learn, to adapt. Occasionally some of us are lost, we mourn this but there's no time to lose, there are a million young programmers waiting to take out place. Finding our niche, our fifteen minutes of fame, is the grail of the industry.

I have not found my grail, nor do I expect or foresee any fame. I make of my time here what i can as a person that makes the mysterious technologies of the web, the business tools of teh future. This blog is an attempt to figure out where we're going.

BTW: BBQ Sauce on pizza is amazing.