Developing The Web

Developing the web

Web developers, web developers, web developers, web developers...

Developing the web

Lots of technology:PerlC#ASP.NETVB.NETPythonPHPASPCRubyJavaTclshLassoColdFusion

Which one to choose?

Which one to choose??

Let's make it simple!►PHP is for normal people

►Others are for women

But actually it really doesn't matter, it's just a bunch of 1's and 0's after all (at least in some point)

Javascript?

Javascript?

Slow! Patchy support for technology X Data manipulation on the client-side!

->unpredictable results

People hates it->www.ihatejavascript.com->NoScript

Rich user interface?->not your problem!

Just forget it!

What about CSS?!

Mysterious browser support! Spend a day to get the layout to work using

only CSS->give up and get the job done in 30 minutes using tables!

Print media is for detailed typography and desing, web media is not->have you seen a 12 year old kid publishing a news paper?->have you seen a 10 year old kid publishing a web page (most probably, at least if you are an experienced surfer)?!

Back to the server-side...

Cool people talks about caching What is it? Shall I cache?

Server-side cache...

Caches can get poisoned! Caches can get out sync! Caches require extra effort! DO NOT CACHE!!

Instead.......

...Client-side cache

Shift the problem to the client-side->ExpiresDefault "access plus 100 years"-><META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Mon, 13 Jul 2200 11:00:00 GMT">

Just make sure you don't update your page too often

Other hippies

XML Json Ajax Unit's API's SOAP RSS EC2

Other hippies

API's break and unit's just keep growing,XML is probably invalid and Ajax is buggy,plus EC2 rudely pretends busy

Why you should be using them?!

Other hippies

Shush them away and be on the bright side!

SQL and pals

SQL implementations were originally average thin, but a bit goofy

(also has had the worst infection history ever!) ORM to the rescue!

►SQL got big bazookas!!

but also...

SQL and pals

...a huge bottom!! Servers got exhausted

SQL is for sissies anyway,dont' bother with it

Libraries

Libraries may holdstructured and wellorganized functionsto get the job done

Libraries

Too bad they arealways outdated

They introducedependencies

You'll never findwhat you arelooking for!

Tools

There are two types of interfaces in the world of development:►user interfaces►good interfaces

User interface

Tends to write bugs->produces outputs that do not have the right meaning

Constant crashes Screws up the

quoting

Good interface

The most solution of them all

Forget server-side calculations!->never worry about XSS again->never worry about CSRF again->applies to other weird short character combos also

Forget client-side operations! Plain texturize what you have to say and let a

web server serve it, keep it simple->if you are a coolio, enhance with images

Thanks for your time

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