{"id":551,"date":"2005-04-28T09:27:55","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=551"},"modified":"2005-04-28T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T14:27:55","slug":"a-little-dabll-do-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2005\/04\/28\/a-little-dabll-do-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"A little dab&#8217;ll do ya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivepath.com\/publications\/essays\/archives\/000385.php\">Ajax article<\/a> has certainly got a lot of discussion going, ranging from ho-hum to hyperbole. <\/p>\n<p>A few pundits are postulating (or at least sensationalizing) that this could be the end of app dev as we know it, a new order storming the beaches, sweeping fat and smart clients out to sea.  I have to think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft-watch.com\/article2\/0,1995,1777009,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535\">Mary Jo Foley<\/a> has tongue firmly in cheek when she says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWill we see a dev world divided along Ajax\/smart client lines? Or is there room for both programming platforms to coexist and (shudder) maybe even interoperate?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps she&#8217;s mocking the Wall Street Journal (no link, you gotta pay for it now) where it was suggested that Ajax may trigger a sea change in app dev.<\/p>\n<p>Scoble <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2005\/03\/19.html#a9672\">joins the fray<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/jcooney.net\/archive\/2005\/03\/17\/481.aspx\">Joseph Cooney <\/a> leans closer to my view which is that we should all add Ajax to our bag o&#8217; tricks and pull it out only where appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I once introduced a junior programmer to Remote Scripting and soon found that every page he built was full of complex RPC-over-http interaction even to post a simple form.  Let&#8217;s not all go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse&#8217;s Ajax article has certainly got a lot of discussion going, ranging from ho-hum to hyperbole. A few pundits are postulating (or at least sensationalizing) that this could be the end of app dev as we know it, a new order storming the beaches, sweeping fat and smart clients out to sea. I have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}