Re: Skills Required

["Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lol.. sorry Maurice, just defending a misrepresentation of myself on this
list.  I do have the right to that.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Maurice O'Prey
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Skills Required
>
>
> Here we go again!
>
> For crying out loud will you two guys take your argument off-line
> (I'm sure
> you have each other's email address by now)
>
> Skills required....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Bradley V. Stone
> Sent: 27 May 2008 19:25
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Skills Required
>
> > Bradley V. Stone wrote:
> > > Alright, Joe, when the H-E double hockey sticks did I say I was
> > anti-AJAX.
> > >
> > Heeeeeeeeee!  Okay, perhaps "anti" is a bit strong, but certainly not
> > "pro".  You made a pretty strong statement that you don't think AJAX
> > fits very often:
> >
> > "I've put together quite a few nice systems, although decided
> against AJAX
> > for most of them.  I am using it in one application now I'm
> writing for a
> > county clerk's office.  I showed it to Aaron.  While simple, it
> does work
> > nice as far as making it more "user friendly" and the hardest part was
> > putting together (actually finding online!) an AJAX library to
> > plug in so I
> > could make multiple connections at once.  That took all of 10 minutes.
> > Implementing it took all of 30.
> >
> > The problem is, right now it's only internal.  It's one case in all the
> > projects I've done where I thought AJAX fit perfectly."
> >
> >
> > Is that "anti-AJAX".  Perhaps not.  But it's far from a ringing
> > endorsement, whereas the examples Nathan showed us were from the ground
> > up dependent on AJAX.  Just a slight architectural disconnect, is all.
>
> WOW!  WOW!
>
> Now I have to use AJAX for EVERYTHING in EVERY application even
> if it's not
> the right fit or I'm not endorsing a particular technology?  Keep
> backpeddling, man.  You're way off on this point.
>
> Also, the example Nathan gave with pics of animals is pretty much the same
> type of application I used AJAX for.  Loading thumbnails for each
> page of a
> document to view/print.  Sort of a document viewer in a browser.
>
> Because there is document redaction and other processes going on for each
> page that can take a lot of time, I didn't want to show a blank page, so
> instead I show them an animated GIF of an hourglass for each
> thumbnail while
> it's loading.  Using AJAX, when each thumbnail is ready for viewing the
> hourglass is replaced with the thumbnail and the user isn't sitting there
> wondering what's going on.
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
>
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