Fri
May
02
2008

Programming et. al.

So I’m getting back into programming a little. The AJAX thing looks interesting. Web 2.0 and all that jazz.

Then again I am faced with the prospect of living in Kaycee Wyoming where learning a programming language is akin to picking up advanced skills in sailing ship design. Nice, but when will I get a chance to use it.

Well, the answer to that is my own web stuff. And it really doesn’t hurt to keep somewhat abreast of what is going on in the way of web programming in case a really great contract comes my way.

Programming used to be pretty – well – simple. There was Fortran, Pascal and those other structured programming languages with there conditional statements and stuff.

Then came along Java, that was my first object oriented language and here were all these libraries. Like an idiot I have written huge functions that did things I later discovered a existing library did.

Now comes AJAX which seems to be a blend of Javascript, XHTML, XML, CSS, a DOM thingy and perhaps other beasties.

What’s will there be in five years? It seems as though the Web 1.0 stuff was pretty simple in comparison to what is going on now and heaven help me when the Web 3.0 technologies rear their ugly heads in 2015.

So tonight I’m just getting going on JavaScript, not that I haven’t used JavaScript in the past – but not in the context of AJAX.

Seriously, if I didn’t think it sounded impressive telling people I was going into AJAX development I probably wouldn’t even be looking into it.

At this time I am not sure what can be done in AJAX that can’t be done in PHP, but there must be something. Right?

Posted by John R. Garrett, May 2, 10:12 pm
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