CSU wants their web designers to start using AJAX, which is just a fancy way of telling us to use JavaScript and XML at the same time.
It seems like a step backward in web technology. I went from SSI to ColdFusion to Zope (i.e., Python) ... and now they want me to use AJAX?? Do they realize that I have 1000 people trying to change the content on the College's websites all the time, and that I need to have my own content management system in place or else my position is going to require about 120 hours / week to keep up?!
Maybe they'll hire me a "Web Development Coordinator Coordinator." I need coordinated.
Oh well, I can incorporate the ideas behind AJAX in a Zope environment, I just worry about keeping up with the web accessibility standards. I pride myself in having the most accessible sites at CSU ... and now they want me to load my page up with Javascripts... so what, if somebody has Javascript disabled, I have to do database queries the old fashioned way?!
I guess I see why AJAX is a useful web technology, but it's neither new nor innovative, so why make all us poor schmucks change up our web design in order to make LESS accessible and LESS manageable sites?!
Tomorrow, I'm going to a Reel Big Fish concert with my sister's best friend from high school. They haven't talked for a long time, but I still keep in touch with her - and now it looks like we'll be hanging out for the first time in five-ish years! Weird...
Man, I hope Chad can come up this weekend! I miss that dude. If he does, I'm going to buy some shackles and a guard dog and keep him prisoner in my pantry. He won't starve in there, and I'll be able to hang with him anytime I want! Bwa ha ha!
(Having someone chained up in shackles sounds like a sex slave... ewww, not like that!)