Comments on: HTML 5, jQuery, REST: is it client server redux? http://scottpenberthy.com/2009/05/03/html-5-jquery-rest-is-it-client-server-redux/ Musings on iPhone, Flash and the Cloud Sat, 14 May 2011 06:10:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://scottpenberthy.com/2009/05/03/html-5-jquery-rest-is-it-client-server-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-13 admin Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:14:30 +0000 http://scottpenberthy.com/?p=189#comment-13 You're right. As long as it works. :-) I find it fascinating as we watch each new generation of software developers enter the workforce. Techniques that were once the rage 30 years ago seem to have an odd way of making it back into the avant garde. VM? Try 1970. Now its on commodity hardware, over the Internet, and called Cloud. Its charged to a credit card, versus invoiced through purchasing and installed over months. Love that. You’re right. As long as it works. :-)

I find it fascinating as we watch each new generation of software developers enter the workforce. Techniques that were once the rage 30 years ago seem to have an odd way of making it back into the avant garde. VM? Try 1970. Now its on commodity hardware, over the Internet, and called Cloud. Its charged to a credit card, versus invoiced through purchasing and installed over months.

Love that.

]]> By: Kris http://scottpenberthy.com/2009/05/03/html-5-jquery-rest-is-it-client-server-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Kris Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:38:56 +0000 http://scottpenberthy.com/?p=189#comment-12 Putting on my user hat: whatever works. In the olden daze, desktop apps were too static: bi-annual updates, likely at a cost. When can I go purchase the latest-hopefully-less-buggy version of my critical business app? In the modern era, server-side apps are too dynamic: tri-daily updates (albeit free). Did this critical business app I used yesterday change overnight without notice? Fat clients can work. Fat servers can work. They just need to work. (I must admit the geeky computer science musings are attractive) Putting on my user hat: whatever works.

In the olden daze, desktop apps were too static: bi-annual updates, likely at a cost. When can I go purchase the latest-hopefully-less-buggy version of my critical business app?

In the modern era, server-side apps are too dynamic: tri-daily updates (albeit free). Did this critical business app I used yesterday change overnight without notice?

Fat clients can work. Fat servers can work. They just need to work.

(I must admit the geeky computer science musings are attractive)

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