Complaint - Blogger Sux
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Ok, I write my second posting of all time, spend a solid 30 mins writing it, and it vanishes. The publish button brings me to a nice generic and completely useless timeout screen, which is nothing new. Naturally I click back to try again. The problem is the editor window is cleared out. The blogger compose control did not retain my text. My effort has been completely wasted. 30 mins of my life (not to mention the additional 30 mins I spent scanning my temp files folder for some cache dump copy of my text, and then coming here to flip my lid about the whole ordeal) that I'll never get back because the web developer/architect who created this horrible control did not have the ability or foresight to deal with a timeout caused by -- you guessed it -- blogger.com's slow ass site.
So now what? Do I have to cut and paste the HTML contents into notepad before I click Publish each time in case blogger chooses to timeout my request? Is this normal procedure for the average technology ignorant blogger?
My boss is always trying to argue how web applications will lead the future, how rich clients will take the back burner. That isn't going to happen.
For those of you who don't know, the web was created to be like the worlds largest online encyclopedia. Pictures and text, and the ability to download binaries. That's it. Now, Flash is great I'll admit. Adds a whole new flavor. But who's idea was it to run business applications in a gawd damn web browser? Some moronic admin supporting 300 computers who was too lazy to install a push technology client on them all? Give me a break. Web application development set a huge slice of the developer community back about 5 years (those stupid enough to jump on board). Even today they are only just catching up with the capabilities we've had in rich window apps back when the web was invented.
Want to know the next wave? It's called 'smart clients' right now. It'll likely come to be known by many names with many variations in theme, but either way it'll be what you use all the time with or without knowing it. Smart client's is how the best in the industry plan to allow rich client developers to build rich applications that can be launched from a web link. All the deployment benefits of 'web apps' but still developed as a rich client with just as much power, flexibility, and responsiveness as ever.
And in reponse to all my technical jumbo mumbo my boss says "but the basic user doesn't care what the technology is, they just want working apps!" Yes. Excellent wording of the obvious. Here's a simple response: smart client apps will be far more 'working' then any web app pitted against them: faster, more responsive, more adaptive.
So where will that leave web apps? The same place as my missing blog.
TPC
posted by tpcmurray at 3:16 PM
3 Comments:
I agree with you to an extent, but the corporate bottom dollar will most likely be spent on web based applications for while yet, simply becuase thats where they've invested their boulion over the past few years ... AND its hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Coupled with decreasing IT budgets, ,and more so, less faith in the skills of IT departments, Corporate Execs are choosing to go it alone in the decision making related to technologies. Granted, they are not always intelligent decisions based on a real understanding of the available technologies, they are decisions, unfortunately ones that make a huge difference to thier bottom line, in one way or another.
Sadly, the glory days of the Elite IT Consultant have been over for a while ... and this emergent technology that you and your cronies say will revitalize rich client apps, is just another bag of bones for the IT community to get that old dog to "Roll Over" ....
I feel the success of any company is based on their ability to Consume Technology, software and hardware ,effectively.
In order to do that, you need skilled professionals, who can adequately interpret technology for the executives. A seasoned IT professional is a good researcher. Today, the ability to understand technical trends in a gloabl economy is greatly increasing the capability of executives to make the RIGHT decisions.
Informer, you have very little insight based on your opinion. Have you considered the fullfillment of Moore's Law and the unprecedented consumption of information based resources.
The last decade is a solid testiment of the power of technological change, and IT professionals are the Elite.
Technology is pushing the Corporate Ship, and IT professionals are at the helm. Sadly these professionals no longer get the credit or salaries they deserve.
For Corporations that have skilled IT professionals on staff and refuse to utilize their wisdom and maintain outdated corporate tactics at the same time ... I ask this ...
Where do you think you will be in 5 or 10 years?
... The same place as the missing blog!!
So, You're kind are a bunch of elitist know it alls !!
I couldn't care less what you think your "KIND" can do, the fact is, if you're an IT professional of any company, you are only there as long as corporate budgets are deemed feasible for the allowance of such elitist influences.
If you were so smart you'd be heading up one of your own companies, and making it, but I'd rather place my bets that you're both underpaid, disgruntled employees of some lame software company.
Get a life people, there's more to corporate success than IT knowledge!!!
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