Kyle Huntley (are you seeing a new theme for my blog?) has just written on a topic that I've been thinking about lately:
Browser vs Runtime, Atlas/Ajax, WPF thoughts. In the midst of all of the hype around the cool hacks that you can with a web browser, it is important not to ignore the innovation happening around application development on the Windows platform. My favorite quote:
"Ajax is simply a way of trying to paper over the “poor” client characteristics of the browser / markup technology rootstock." My personal take is that there are definitely some good business cases for web applications, but the web browser is still not the appropriate runtime for rich appications.
Kyle Huntley recently posted
a humorous entry comparing Waterfall to Communism.
On another note, for those of you who are wondering where I've been, I have been deeply focused on a few really cool internal projects at Avanade. Unfortunately, at least for the time being, that means I can not talk about them. Just know that I'm still alive and I will make the effort to post on occasion!