JavaScript and HTML 5

JavaScript and HTML 5
The momentum is there for these technologies to take over web based development. They are bringing to the browser something it was not originally designed to do; an environment that can be programmed with events, methods, bindings and many other modern front end like tools only found previously in rich development environments. If this were not so, there would not be tools like Acrobat, Silverlight, or even older technologies such as Java or visual basic applets hosted in the browser.

Ok, that’s old news, I know. The technologies have been out there for years now. In fact, many JavaScript libraries have evolved implementing modern web development patterns such as MVC or MVVM. I just read a poll on 17 popular JavaScript frameworks applicable to different situations.

http://www.infoq.com/research/top-JavaScript-mvc-frameworks?utm_source=infoqEmail&utm_medium=WeeklyNL_ResearchContent&utm_campaign=061113news

Some of those tools may be used in very tiny footprint devices such as smaller phones. Others are made for high powered computers or tablets, and have a great deal of sophistication and power.

So, now that you have spent the last 10 years coming up to speed in MVVM, MVC and hand written a lot of your AJAX code, are you ready to commit yourself to HTML5 and JavaScript. Is this technology going to live long enough to get much beyond beta releases before the focus and recommended toolset changes again? How many of you spent the time to get up to speed with Silverlight only to find it is now the poor stepchild, having become an abandoned technology?

Get into the conversation. Leave your comments here, or drop me a note at btaylor@sswug.org.

Cheers,

Ben

Reader Feedback – Application Logging
Terry writes:

We like to implement logging as we develop, especially in MSSQL. We have a severity setting and stored procedure to control the level of logging. By default, logging is for only errors, but if a tech needs to see what is really happening, update the setting and step threw the process and they can see all the logging. This keeps most support at 2nd level and they can solve or at least diagnose a high percentage of the issues.

Great topic

$$SWYNK$$

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