RIA == platform play
Neal Ford has a great post here highlighting how the new enthusiasm for Rich Internet Applications is an attempt by the big vendors to capture the kind of platform marketshare that the Win32 API had back in the 90’s.
Which brings us around to the current hotness, Rich Internet Applications (RIA). [...]
I found this comment on Reddit and it’s worth repeating. I don’t usually post someone else’s words as the entire content of my post. But this really sums up my feelings about the term “software development crisis”.
http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6j1mf/comments/c03zf02
I’m sorry, but this is just nonsense.
People are forever coming along and proclaiming that software engineering is in a [...]
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Chris’s Weblog - Polyglot Programming
I made the point during the fishbowl that the polyglot programmer is already here. Web developers have always used HTML + JavaScript client-side, some kind of server language (PHP, VBScript + ASP, Java/JSP, etc … ), and they’ve usually had to write some kind of database access using SQL. I [...]
