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VERY interesting article RE: the state of web development today

Some really interesting statistics in this report issued on “The state of Web Development”…

Check out the PDF of the report [HERE]

Thankfully, it appears that I am part of the current majority of designers, developing in PHP and pure CSS, all hand coded. (or well, at least using a text editor – Hyperedit)

I have never heard of this ‘Ruby’ though… and that seems to have a large portion of what people are using. I know I need to get into AJAX, but this ‘Ruby’ was something new to me…

Let me know your thoughts, and where you stand on these figures…

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2 Responses to “VERY interesting article RE: the state of web development today”

  1. David Says:
    September 5th, 2006 at 10:53 am

    If you’re looking to get into AJAX, I’d recommend you take a look at moo fx, scriptaculous and prototype. They give you some libraries so you can jump right in and start using AJAX without too much effort. I’m pretty much like you, I code in Php & CSS and I use a bit of AJAX for an enhanced UI.

  2. will Says:
    October 2nd, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    Ruby on Rails is a development platform for the Ruby language. Apparently it’s pretty popular, but the only folks I know using it are the hardcore programmer types. My experience with it is limited; a guy helped me with a Google maps interface that was pretty slick and ajaxy, operating on RoR.

    I concur with the recommendation for scriptaculous. I used that library on the http://www.friendsforfamilies.com web site, where I set up some draggable list items. You drag a list into your preferred order, and with each drag, the order is stored to the database without a page refresh. Pretty sweet.

    Demo here: http://www.gregphoto.net/sortable/

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