Useful Phrases in Modern Web Development
Now, don't take this seriously....
- Folksonomy
- Uses tags.
- AJAX
- Uses Javascript
- Web 2.0
- Uses AJAX, large text, rounded corners and gradient fills
- Web framework
- Some code used to produce an application that can be accessed using a web browser
- Ruby
- Like a cleaned up Perl with sensible OO
- Ruby on Rails
- A web framework written in Ruby that allows one to quickly write Web 2.0 applications
- Python
- In the words of one of my esteemed colleagues: "a messed up jumble of a crappy functional language with some OO grafted on top"
- Django
- A web framework written in Python that allows one to quickly write Web 2.0 applications
- Semantic Web
- It'll never happen.
- Microformat
- Sticking data in your pages in a bid to create the semantic web
- Information Overload
- Too much stuff to read on your computer
- Web Feeds
- RSS
- RSS
- Atom
- Atom
- Format used for web feeds. These are used when you don't want to visit the website publishing the web feed in the first place but want to suffer from information overload
- Pub-Sub
- Web feed
- REST
- Using HTTP and URLs the way that they're meant to be used
- WS-*
- Not using HTTP and URLs the way that they're meant to be used
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Thanks for a good laugh.
It reminded me of Joel Spolsky's rant:
"The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It's not a real concept. It has no meaning. It's a big, vague, nebulous cloud of pure architectural nothingness. When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little bit stupider for the rest of the day."
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/21.html
Good luck with the move
I must declare some dumbfoundedness at the last two Si-attollah.
REST is great, but nobody understands it and it's often rendered as a fairly naff XML and HTTP POST RPC. Lightweight? Yes. RESTful? No.
WS-* doesn't imply HTTP, so ner :-P
Jim, you're quite right about WS-* not implying HTTP, but that's the transport that I've seen most people using. And you're right, REST is a misunderstood beastie too: XML + HTTP POST RPC is not really a RESTful interface.
Love it!