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I always respected cliffhangers. Not because I want to become one, I just understand that it’s very difficult. Cliffhangers don’t try to make it look easy – they openly admit that it’s hard, but this is what they like.
In software development there are different
lobbies. There is this guy, he’s very experienced .Net developer. When
we see each other, he behaves very aggressively trying to convince me
that what he can do in .Net I can’t do in Java.
Ruby on Rails people are ready to kill anyone who says anything against their baby.
But AJAX developers are different. They always openly state that AJAX is difficult, and I respect them for this. If you are thinking of using AJAX for your next enterprise project, I urge you to watch the video of the presentation by Joseph Smarr, the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, Inc., where he's led the engineering of Plaxo's address-book integration application.
Joseph is very experience AJAX developer, and if after watching this presentation you won’t get goose bumps, go ahead and start your next RIA project with AJAX. Make sure that you can afford to hire a team of developers of Joseph’s caliber.
I respect AJAX developers and will participate in the upcoming AJAXWorld conference next month in New York City.
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Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Currently Yakov works on the book for O'Reilly "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.
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