As I See Tech

For the longest time, web applications absorb processing loads on the server-side, leaving the client-side to mostly just rendering the response (i.e. HTML/CSS) from the web server. Now, with JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, etc., the client-side is sharing the processing load.

Once in a while, you just want a web page. In ASP.Net's MVC world, that means all the scaffolding and coding for Model, View and Controller. ASP.Net Core 2's Razor Pages simplifies all the plumbing to just getting the page done with the knowledge that it's all MVC underneath.

In a world filled with jargons, software developers never run out of new ones. MVC, ORM, UoW, SPA, SignalR, GitHub, NuGet, DevOps, etc. If you don't catch up, you can get lost in figuring which new one is a concept, a technology, a product or a service.

The month of February starts with hot news about competing products and technologies. Hot enough to spark a couple of wars! It's Google vs. Microsoft Bing on a search war; and, it's Verizon vs. AT&T on the mobile network war (over Apple's iPhone).

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) launched an HTML5 logo last January 18, 2011 which caused quite a stir in the web development community. The announcement came with this statement: Now there is a logo for those who have taken up parts of HTML5 into their sites, and for anyone who wishes to tell the world they are using or referring to HTML5, CSS, SVG, WOFF, and other technologies used to build modern Web applications. --  W3C Introduces an HTML5 Logo, W3C.org Two days later, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) contested that the HTML5 logo program does not replace "HTML" as the official term for the the web design standard and proclaimed instead that  HTML is the new HTML5 . In response to mostly negative community feedback, including criticisms from The Web Standards Project ( WaSP ), W3C retracted on January 21, 2011 to say that the logo "represents HTML5, the cornerstone for modern Web applications ." WaSP is requesting W3...