No the rumors are not true. I haven't been kidnapped by the government in suspicion of plotting the end of the world. Although some may suggest it is the dawn of the end. Jesus, yes I do mean you, what the hell is going on? Earth is shakin, wind is blowin, water is getting everywhere, and birds are out of control!
Not too worry, it hasn't disrupted the good old midwest, yet. We're hard at work in these parts. I've all but given up on PHP for a sexier gem called Ruby. The holy trinity of Ruby, ActionScript 3.0, and Javascript are upon us. If you throw in XML you could call them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse but I'd like to refrain from the Armageddon references. A show of hands please, is everyone ready for Web 2.0? If not here are some great links that will help.
- Kevin Lynch at Web 2.0 Conference
- Jeffrey Veen at Web Essentials '05
- What is Web 2.0?
- Scriptaculous
- Flex 2
- Web Essentials '05
On another note. You may or may not have noticed some changes to this site. The RSS feed now features integrated bookmarks and photoblog entries. I've also fixed all the IE6 bugs, sorry 95% of my audience :)
Comments
John
Scriptaculous seems to be revolutionizing the way we use javascript. A lot of good stuff coming out of that shop. You should check out his blog
Tim
What's your favorite web 2.0 app?
Jeffrey Yamada
I don't know anything about Ruby, but was shocked to hear it has anything to do with Actionscript....or AS3 for that matter. As far as I've had time to read Macro is still alling AS, as2 w/ flash 8.
So what does this mean? I'm out of the loop? Ruby likes flash?
Please do tell!
Nathan Borror http://www.playgroundblues.com/
I was referring more to their usage in symphony. Actionscript 3.0 and Flash 8.5 are in alpha right now. Sounds like it should be hitting the streets early 2006. AS3 looks very healthy!