More to come…

The conference is over but I have a lot more to add.  They pretty much saved the best for last, so there’s a lot to cover.  So many powerpoint slides, so little time…  Expect posts on these topics, and more soon:

• FLEX
• Reverse Ajax
• Widgets
  
• New Ajax Standards
• XQuery

Embracing New Platforms

The speaker was Bert Halstead, chief architect for CURL. This presentation was roughly based on a study commissioned by CURL to compare Flex, CURL, AJAX, and .NET on several different aspects such as learning curve, average development time, loading speed, etc by finding teams of developers to duplicate a certain web application for each language. As you could expect, CURL came out on top a few times… with Flex consistently coming out in the middle. I wasn’t very impressed with the survey – it seemed the results were a bit off, especially for development time aspect since apparently they tested teams that had prior knowledge of some of the languages. Basically the point was that there are trade-offs with each method. He also believed that we’re moving towards building more web-enabled applications for the desktop.