Ajaxian Wars
David’s got a good point in this post about the stink over Ajax. I think it’s a little funny and a little sad that people who love technology have this pathological hatred/fear of what they call “marketing types”. The culture of a technology is a large part of what makes it develop; without an evangelist as effective as Mr. Heinemeir-Hansson I doubt that Rails would have taken off as completely as it has. Sure, we’d like to think that good technology rises to the top on the basis of its own merits but that’s not entirely true, now is it? In moving forward let’s waste less time feeling superior to other people and more time working on the technological kinks, the adoption curves, and the idea generation.
For instance, did you know you could put Ajax on Rails? Let’s spend more time re-mixing our Web, eh?
On that note, Ryan and I had a spirited talk about what would happen should he ever meet Jesse James Garrett. Ryan said that if we’re going to have name debates, why don’t we start with Jesse James Garrett… what’s up with that name?