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By: Gregório Melo

Gregório Melo — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:10:15 +0000

I totally agree with you. I’d just add another topic: Following standards. I really bealieve that we’re following a movement that leads towards standardized technologies, which has started years ago.

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:06:41 +0000

Web based technologies are just set to increase over the next few years. Especially with technology like cloud computing that enables users to access their applications via a web browser.

I would love to see improvement in mobile development especially with web based technologies which are still not a big hit perhaps because of screen or keypad restrictions. Tablets or netbooks might be a solution to this.

By: Alberto Gutierrez

Alberto Gutierrez — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:32:31 +0000

Hi Jim!

Yours is actually an excellent point… I agree with you that we are going to use something quite different from what we know now, but because all the legacy code, I also believe that they are just going to be the an evolution of the current technologies (HTML / JavaScript and AJAX), so being used to them and keep in touch with their new versions is going to be something necessary.

Just to illustrate my point, think about HTML, is being around for 15 years now, and it doesn’t look as there is any serious competence… W3C have actually just published the working draft for HTML 5.

By: Jim Danby

Jim Danby — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:57:30 +0000

Hope you are wrong. I like my 50″ TV but I don’t want to carry it around with me.

Seriously though, you are aiming at the wrong things. Do you REALLY think that in ten years we’ll still be using JavaScript / AJAX / HTML for new projects?

By: ESN

ESN — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:49:35 +0000

How true! Cloud computing is something I need to learn more about. With google apps and such, it’s going to be the next big thing.