Hello World

Hola to all. I have decided to turn my homepage into a blog. Many reasons why, but the short version is that it is a lot easier to maintain this way. I found that having to edit HTML and upload files and keep track was just too tedious for me to actually keep up with. (Yes, I am that lazy)

So what I plan to do here is give a little different perspective to web technologies. I have been developing web sites since 1993 and have seen quite a few ‘end-all’ solutions come and go.

I like Macromedia’s Flex architecture. I think RIAs will be abundant very soon as long as they are easy to adopt and maintain. Flex fits in with virtually any J2EE app out there (as long as it was written properly). Lazlo is another one that shows promise. AJAX is ever abundant and appears to be closing the gap as far as compatability with multiple browser clients with some well written libraries. The W3C is helping out on that front by standardizing everything they can get their hands on.

Lo and behold! Just when you think that Java can’t be beat on the server-side, a contender arrives and not from the shores of Redmond! Rails is quickly becoming the poster boy for Web 2.0 architectures with it’s OOP design and AJAX built-ins.

So who will win the RIA Battle Royal? Who will win the server platform wars? Who cares. I’m in it for the fun of playing with everything. I’ll leave the prognostication to my boss and his ROI spreadsheets :-)