The Ajax Experience… Delayed by a Year
October 9th, 2009 § 1
In October of 2008 I attended the Ajax Experience Conference (sponsored by ajaxian.com among others) in Boston. 2009 saw a conflict between Ben and Dion and Adaptive Path’s San Francisco UX Week, which I opted for to diversify. Here, however, near its first anniversary, I share what I took from the 2008 Boston session. We’ve made progress. There’s still a way to go. And I still think UI/X is king. The excitement and challenges of a year ago:
Code
August 29th, 2009 § 0
The code is the product, and it’s called ‘code’ for a reason… Not because we use it to veil messages and intentions, but because it’s only after years of diligence that that we learn to use it in ways that are transparent, interpretable, and maintainable.
The first internet revolution unfolded when we figured out how to provide things over the wire. I was working as a ‘media analyst’ at a PR research firm in 1999 when the major organizational challenge was in moving customers from a periodically-mailed software CD to a model that delivered the software and its updates in near-real-time over the web. At about the same time, I signed up for my first internet-based banking experience. This was new stuff. This was functionality from afar. We could actually go to web addresses not just for information, but to make stuff happen.