The state (past to present) of development – or now is a great time to be a developer
At start there was the mainframe with central deployment and support but with COBOL and CICS
Then we had the client-server model that used the powerful pc as the client which allowed better user experience and development tools but had the difficult deployment and support model.
The internet ushered a return to the simpler central deployment and support model. No more installations on separate client machines.
But the development and user experience also returned to page-based environment.
With the new slew of RIA environments (Flex, AIR, Ajax), and the corresponding frameworks, we are now returning to rich user experience with the development tools to match, while still keeping the central deployment/support model.
Indeed it is a great time to be a development.
Below are some of the technologies that I have been investigating and how they all tie into each other (again this is form my perspective and is not just limited to the corporate environment).
