TSS Keynote: Guest entry
Another guest bile! This time covering the TSS keynote. The poster sadly wants to remain anonymous though (with good reason actually)…
I’m watching TSS unfold, and so far, it’s been good, but not THAT good. The opening keynote wasn’t much of a keynote - Geir Magnusson decided to replicate Apache’s “let’s bring everyone into it” modus and brought up a bunch of wankers to give “opinions” and “views” on stuff instead of putting in the work.
The batman reference was funny, provided you knew what the context was. Considering how many people hadn’t been to TSSJS before, that means that everyone now associates Batman with Geirinstead of McFleuryploppy.
The panel was great, except they skipped over a whole lot of, like, crucial issues. They properly dismissed Web 2.0 as the hype machine it is, which was great, but then immediately revived it, saying “bea has it all!” (from Patrick Linksey, who’s apparently heard of being self-serving and converted body and soul.) They focused on rich client platforms talking to services, which sounds great, except that we heard this back in 1999, and 2000, and 2001, and 2002, and 2003, and 2004, and 2005. Apparently seven years of miserable failure isn’t enough.
Look, the problem isn’t the client - it’s the service. If all your app does is talk to mail, chat, or google maps, and you’re willing to happily dismiss the mere concept of network connectivity not always being there, then you’re set. But in the REAL world, where the rest of us live, things don’t work that way. I can’t store google maps on my desktop for when the network pukes.
What’s really ironic is that the assumption of network connectivity takes place at Caesar’s Palace, where the network is so great that I’m only dropping half my packets, and the ones I’m not losing are being dribbled through a coffee stirrer. It makes using gmail - the poster child for Web 2.0 - really amusing since LOADING THE FUCKING PAGE takes forever due to all the kicky rich client functionality the thing has to download.
So it was a great panel, considering how “future-looking” they were, and how easily they skipped over, like, relevant issues. On the other hand, at least they finally listened to people in the audience. New idea, eh, and badly overdue… now if only the audience had something worthwhile to say.
March 23rd, 2006 at 1:56 pm
All I can say is, you don’t know me.
And the math question is too hard.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Hey, if it makes you feel any better, gmail has been slow and keeps crashing for me on a wired network…
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:47 pm
GMail started to crash more often lately. I guess they gave away too many invites. Also, checking server every 20 seconds or so seems too much. They should provide setting for that.
BTW, you can use GMail without Ajax stuff, do you know that? Just turn off Javascript and have your Yahoo GMail. But then you have to click “Refresh” manually, so tiring.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:55 pm
And I might add that all that funky JavaScript that makes gmail Web 2.0 isn’t working in every browser in the world, namely mine.
But I guess that AJAX is ‘cool’, and Web 2.0 (whatever that really means) is ‘cool’ and Google is ‘cool’, and therefor GMail was destened to be a mix of all this ‘cool stuff’.
At least they haven’t made it ‘enterprise’ yet.
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:25 pm
this site just seems to attract scum! The article was well written, clear, concise, very informative and all you wa_kers can talk about is Google!
I personally enjoyed the coffee stirrer bit.