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AJAX: Get Your Head Outta the Can
From the world of buzzwords comes AJAX -- from the wired article:
...Evidence of this evolution has been popping up everywhere in recent months, with examples that include Google's online map rendering software and its Gmail service, Amazon's A9 search engine and NetFlix's DVD rental platform. All highlight a dramatic rethinking of web applications, using a programming technique dubbed AJAX (for asynchronous JavaScript and XML) that significantly improves how web pages interact with data, for the first time rivaling programs that run natively on the desktop...
Excuse me, but I've been doing asynchronous Javascript (with or without XML) for many years now. E-gads! I'm missing a key buzzword on the old resume!
Now that I'm obviously outdated because of my lack of enterprise service bus experience (ESB). Perhaps I should put a couple lines in about using AJAX to clean the Enterprise Bus. That could get me a job as something -- perhaps school janitor.
This is crazy. ESB is nothing new, just an evolution of stuff we've been doing for years. Likewise, AJAX is about as new as, well, XML. Or Java. I remember developing feature rich web applications something like five years ago using JS and asynchronous calls. What were we missing then? A cute name, obviously.
Now should I go back and call that experience AJAX? Or my metadata, enterprise service architecture experience ESB? I guess if you know enough to make the joke, it really doesn't matter.
Speaking of things that do not matter, physicists announced the other day that it is possible to know less than nothing. This is why I welcome the quantum computer revolution: it is going to confuse users to the point where consultants can just start making up buzzwords on the fly, and they'll never know (Joking. Just joking!) I can't wait for a project to fail and be called into some VP or Director's office.
"This program is obviously not working"
"Yes it is."
"How can you say that! Look here, it is broken"
"Yes. It is broken in this universe. But this is a quantum program. Somewhere, in a universe far away, the program is working perfectly. And boy! Are you happy over there in that universe."
"#@?$@#@#$!"
"Here's a bill for that other universe. You'll find that we had to work a lot of overtime over there. Jeesh. What a job!"
Ah yes. The quantum computer consulting world will be a load of fun for everyone.
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