I’m sitting in the front row of #WebNotWar, an Open Source Development Conference based on the Windows Platform. This is truly my first ever live blog, that I will be posting at the end of this session, so I hope enjoy the content.
“The Web and Website Development is still a child, we’re still in the dark of what the web will provide, however our flashlight is getting bigger”. We’re starting to experiment with new technologies and methodologies that weren’t available back in the 90s when the web was born and we were known as “Web Masters”.
No matter which language you use to develop, what your backend infrastructure is, what we make for the web is not for us, it’s for our users. The end user doesn’t understand what Ruby, Python, or AJAX is for all they know, they are fancy Minerals, a Snake, or what they use to clean the bathroom sink. What we as Developers need to do is worry about what the user needs, or wants without needing to worry about what is running in the background.
Javascript is the most widely implemented programming language on the web, and is the most interoperable language. When people realized how widely used Javascript had become it made people venture out to build frameworks to abstract the common tasks required in most web applications. This sort of thinking has lead to the birth of jQuery, Prototype, Dojo, YUI, and mootools.
“There really is no way to win, you just need to make it hurt less.”