Software futures
disclaimer first – I’m basing this on my experiences which have been largely server-side business stuff – I’m not sure if this applies to big client gui apps or not, though Damien Conway seems to think so.
Anyway, the big thing I want to dig into is being loosely titled Ajax – basically enhancing web clients via javascript to make asynchronous xml calls to the server.
What this means is (from easiest to hardest) :
- dynamic menus based on server data
- web sites with no page redirect mess!
- fully dynamic web pages
- ultimately, full web based apps like gmail
hmm – out of time, I was going to discuss how Ajax still needs MVC, old browser support, new libraries, and general thoughts about Php, Java, JSP, and more. next time.
- korny, trainblogging!