Damn those concepts! The big deal with Web services is that they work towards a loosely coupled architecture, and as we know, loosely coupled architecture scale very well. Performance and complexity. Too bad people don’t need that. As Andy McKay says, we want something simple and useful: “In this post I was proposing that Web Services as traditionally represented are dead and a new batch of Ajax based web services will arise.” Architecture concepts are great, but here’s another reminder that simple is better. (Via Ajaxian).
JRuby and … JRuby follows in the step of IronPython and Flex for Rails. There’s a reason why I failed to mention the other two before, but it occurred to me that not mentioning is not making a point. IronPython runs on the .Net CLR, which is a great thing, but has too many hooks into .Net. And Flex has a huge issue with those little things we call links and back buttons that make the Web what it is. I just hope JRuby doesn’t go the corporate route and trade your interests for those of the vendor.
Mystery solved. Joel Spolsky’s readers solve one of life’s biggest mysteries: what has more value, a car or the salesperson?
If IT had been responsible for the Creation. Part of me is laughing out loud. The other part is crying, the part that’s trying to get the build system to actually build code.
Ouch! Larry Seltzer: “Mostly, in the end, it appears that Java on the client lost out to Flash of all things! This must be embarrassing for Sun, but it puts Java in its place. It couldn’t even be competitive in the most inessential of tasks.”
links for 2006-09-09 — Chip’s Quips