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Mountain View Tech Meetup I'll be out in Mountain View again next week. Last month's tech meetup was a lot of fun - we had about 30 people show up and almost everyone enjoyed free cocktails for 2-3 hours. Alper suggested the Tied House, which looks perfect. Waddya think - 6:00 next Wednesday night?

What is a tech meetup? It's a user group meeting w/o the meeting part. You go straight to the bar, grab some drinks, maybe some dinner, and talk tech. Posted in Java at Aug 09 2007, 02:04:11 PM MDT 5 Comments

Do we even need web frameworks? On the Struts mailing list, Ted Husted writes:

IMHO, if we had today's JavaScript/CSS/HTML environment available to us in 1998, then JSP, ASP, JSF, PHP, and all the rest of it, would not exist. We did all these things to make up for the shortcomings of the client-side environment, and, since then, the key shortcomings have been addressed.

I believe Ted has a good point. However, today's Ajax development toolkits don't help those applications that require Section 508 compliance. Of course, if your toolkit embraces 508 compliance, I'd love to hear about it. Posted in Java at Aug 09 2007, 08:49:33 AM MDT 8 Comments