Somebody once said something like (sorry I couldn't find who),
"Whenerver somebody says 'it can't be done', they are usually interrupted by somebody who is already doing it"
This phrase has stuck in my mind every time I say NO (If you are following me on Twitter, don't worry, I'm not going to twiter about it every day ;).
Why all this? well, I feel that the Javascript community is constantly interrupting the development of RIA applications saying: "hey, here you are, it's the same sample up and running using Javascript."
And lately they've added a new word at the end of the phrase: "here you are, it's the same sample up and running FAST."
So far, this history has been full of interruptions from Javascript in the RIA world
· Javascript was not developed for this use --> AJAX applications work everywhere
· Javascript + DOM is a bad programming practice --> many easy to use frameworks, such as jQuery wicht hides DOM management
· Too many bad controls --> many high quality controls based on Javascript frameworks.
· Too slow --> High performance Javascript engines
· Graphics? --> Canvas HTML5
I think Javascript technologies will continue to grow; and technologies like Silverlight, AIR and JavaFX wich will also continue to grow, are now useful for many scenarios.
I could say "use AIR or Silverlight if you wanna create cool animations, graphics, performance, etc" but I'm not going to say it because these guys will probably interrupt me:
http://blog.thejit.org/javascript-information-visualization-toolkit-jit/
http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/canvas3d/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/chrome-experiments-are-here.html
In our DTM (Development Team Meeting), I said that: "It's very difficult to find a good spreadsheet control to be integrated in our applications for use directly over a blob in the database"
Well.... Zoho, Genexus, and Gonzalo reminded me about this phrase again and did it
So, in software development I recommend you remember this:
think twice before saying "can't be done"
By the way, if you are a soccer fan of Nacional you know it is very difficult to catch up with Peñarol, but I'm not saying it's impossible ;) Take a look at this spreadsheet
