When "technical" writers don't do their homework
As evidenced in Information Week a few days ago where Aaron Ricadelo (whoever he is) gushed all about ajax and php being the newest and greatest:
Scripting languages such as Ajax and PHP are challenging Java and making it easier to quickly develop and prototype Web-services app
How embarrassing for him.. ajax is not a scripting language and XML consumption is hardly specific to PHP, hence, ajax technology can be used with any server-side language. Seriously, do some research, don't just regurgitate press releases.
I wonder how many middle managers read that and sent out "We gotta get us some of that ajax-php technology!" emails without realizing they might already be using it with Java or .net.
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A friend of mine got so sick of this Ajax stuff seeing as it has been around for a number of years and is really nothing new he did these funny parodies of it:
http://www.codemilitia.com/blogs/tobin.titus/archive/2005/07/21/237.aspx
http://www.codemilitia.com/blogs/tobin.titus/archive/2005/07/22/245.aspx
It got so popular that he created a little link tag site so folks could put it up on their blogs as well:
http://jaxass.org/
Posted by: Andy | November 15, 2005 07:57 PM
He is a little stubborn trying to get that made up concept in wikipedia when it clearly doesnt fit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/JAXASS&diff=prev&oldid=19916079">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/JAXASS&diff=prev&oldid=19916079">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/JAXASS&diff=prev&oldid=19916079
Posted by: Jano | November 16, 2005 05:14 AM
Yeah the Wikipedia stuff is pure comedy. The comments for delete or keep are better than reading Slashdot. I personally don't think it belongs on Wikipedia but it's fun to read the argument.
Posted by: Andy | November 16, 2005 11:31 AM
Ah lovely!
One of my more favorite moments in technology:
Manager: "Is our new platform Java compliant?"
Me: 'What do you mean by Java compliant?'
Manager, rolling eyes: "I read somewhere that all the recent servers being sold are Java compliant."
Me: 'Right, but what does that mean? A Java VM can run just about anywhere...'
Manager: "Why is everything so difficult with you? IS it JAVA compliANT?"
Me: 'Um. Put a server that has J2EE code on the hard drive in the trunk of my car. That will make the car Java Compliant. That help?'
Manager: ...
Posted by: Randy | November 16, 2005 01:34 PM