Comments on: Interesting stuff to watch out in 2010

By: coco1212

coco1212 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:07:56 +0000

Cloud Computing and Realtime Mobile Web are just the first stepst toward Web 3.0 -- It's the next evolutionary milestone for the internet, and it will make tasks like your search for movies and food or cheap stuff online faster and easier. Web 3.0 browsers will be able to understand more "human" searches, and give the best results and suggestions. For example you could type "I want to watch a beautiful sunset while having an italian dinner out. What are my options?"

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:28:44 +0000

What about Noloh? Very promising.
And there is already some good video material on in. Waiting for more to come…

And what about ModX Revolution? Very promising,
once documented properly with video courses.

By: Gaveen

Gaveen — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:54:46 +0000

I’m very enthusiastically watching what’s going to happen in the Maemo mobile platform. As much as Android is gaining momentum, I still feel that Maemo is a platform to watch. Nokia is to ship the successor to N900 this year and Maemo 5+ or 6.

As a platform it’s much more open than Android and runs essentially the same applications as a desktop Linux distro. Once the Linux app developers realise that they can straight away hack on the mobile platform, things could explode. I know I got so excited so much, I started to brush up my rusty C skills. Python bindings are there, hopefully Ruby will be soon. :)

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:25:12 +0000

Why Git? Why not Mercurial and bitbucket.org?

By: Peter Lubbers

Peter Lubbers — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:30:41 +0000

Great post. Definitely agree with you on Web Sockets and HTML5 and I will take a closer look at some of the technologies you mentioned.

@mike: It’s true that Web Sockets is not the answer for everything, but the full-duplex communication channel that it defines does provide a dramatic improvement in the real-time web space.

Sure, “normal Ajax can generally be used in those cases anyway,” but those (Comet) solutions are often very complex and tend to have an incredible amount of HTTP header overhead (on the order of 500 to 1000 times more) as well as a lot more latency.

By: Abraham Williams

Abraham Williams — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:10:23 +0000

I’m looking forward to Drupal 7. There are some impressive changes being polished.

By: Chris Kleeschulte

Chris Kleeschulte — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:08:22 +0000

I hope you are right about websockets and j23tom is not about Silverlight. I don’t like the idea of moving away from open standards and into the hands of Microsoft. Silverlight is cool enough but seems to be the opposite of what CSS3 and HTML5 are doing for us. Seems like everything will be a webapp in the future, so why not make the web more like standalone apps?

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:00:59 +0000

Keeping an eye on the Lift framework for Scala. It’s maturing nicely, and has the potential to bring droves back to the JVM from Ruby (those who aren’t doing JRuby, anyway).

Liking websockets, not so much their implementation though.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:10:11 +0000

I don’t think Web Sockets will turn out to be that important. They’re only useful in a very limited set of scenarios, and normal ajax can generally be used in those cases anyway. Everything else on the web uses request/response polling but web sockets requires an entirely different medthodology for the server side parts.

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:23:38 +0000

I would keep an eye on NOLOH (www.noloh.com). A killer PHP superset framework/platform with built in Ajax, an OOP development paradigm, super-lightweight from a resource perspective and the security of a more traditional server-side based development approach. For PHP devs looking for an alternative to MVC based, RoR-type frameworks, NOLOH is a “must see”.