Update
Not much - i.e. nothing - seems to have happened - true on the surface. What is going on: First, private, I found a new girlfriend and we are both convinced it’s for live, so I was - am! - pretty busy (just moved into her apmt. 1/1/07). Second, I decided to do some research for a month or two on the currents state of web application development, buzzwords J2EE and the entire huge Java-based solution stack, EJB, XML, SOAP, etc., tools like Eclipse (I actually was a founding member of Eclipse, in it for SuSE, but I wasn’t really interested and was chosen only because I was closer and able to praticipate in the Eclipse board meetings) or Netbeans. I also want to look at some Javascript frameworks (GUI+AJAX) - although I want my core site to remain simple and Ajax-free. However, given the nature of Letexa, it shall be possible to provide different interfaces, since Letexa is not a website at the core but much more.
Right now I’m looking at Ruby on Rails and the REST issues/discussions (see the Rails homepage and Rails 1.2 notes for an entry point). I decided to try Rails after getting through some of the discussion - I must say all this W3C generated stuff like XML schemas and the entire collection of buzzwords indeed is a huge turnoff and pure useless complexity.
Mörre
PS: Nice links. Keynote - long:
http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/07/09/dhh/
Slides for the keynote:
http://www.loudthinking.com/lt-files/worldofresources.pdf
Also see http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000593.html - only as entry point to many more blogs and URLs.