Ninety nine percent of people in this world are not computer, programming, etc enthusiasts. They want their computers to work like their phone, TV, refrigerator, vacuum. They have many, many interests, hobbies and endeavors that don't include tech. The over all flavor of these posts is that if you are not like minded then you are stupid, slow or lazy. You folks need to diversify your social contacts and get to know more people outside the tech world. Computers are a commodity and need to just work for most people and not a life style.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm having a hard enough time securing my data now without giving over control of my data to whatever company thats wants me to run their all-in-everything browser/os while dialing home with all that I am. No thanks.
If you take a closer look at many of the platforms that are hot right now you will notice that the concepts that give them the ability to quickly create well designed websites also make much easier to maintain these sites. With standardization and the use of modular construction, or what some call tiered programming, you have separated the logical processes and are able to change any one part without having to reinvent the entire website. When you need to rewrite the script calls to the backend, you don't have to worry about what the output of the data will look like in the front end because they are two separate processes that hand off data to their suspected components. Think of it like Cascading Style Sheets, one change to the file and all pages using that definition are changed in on fell swoop. This has a major impact on TCO when changes can be address in a single place that will impact across the whole site.
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Ninety nine percent of people in this world are not computer, programming, etc enthusiasts. They want their computers to work like their phone, TV, refrigerator, vacuum. They have many, many interests, hobbies and endeavors that don't include tech. The over all flavor of these posts is that if you are not like minded then you are stupid, slow or lazy. You folks need to diversify your social contacts and get to know more people outside the tech world. Computers are a commodity and need to just work for most people and not a life style.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm having a hard enough time securing my data now without giving over control of my data to whatever company thats wants me to run their all-in-everything browser/os while dialing home with all that I am. No thanks.
If you take a closer look at many of the platforms that are hot right now you will notice that the concepts that give them the ability to quickly create well designed websites also make much easier to maintain these sites. With standardization and the use of modular construction, or what some call tiered programming, you have separated the logical processes and are able to change any one part without having to reinvent the entire website. When you need to rewrite the script calls to the backend, you don't have to worry about what the output of the data will look like in the front end because they are two separate processes that hand off data to their suspected components. Think of it like Cascading Style Sheets, one change to the file and all pages using that definition are changed in on fell swoop. This has a major impact on TCO when changes can be address in a single place that will impact across the whole site.
Someone at the Post talking about factual reporting? Gee, is that pot calling the kettle dirty!!