Nolan Wright is co-founder and CTO of Appcelerator, leading the company's product and services organizations. Prior to starting Appcelerator, he led engineering and product management at Vocalocity. He has also held several senior technology, product management and consulting positions with Accenture, Netscape Communications and Vertical One. Wright is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he earned his BEEE in Electrical Engineering. For more information, please visit http://www.appcelerator.org.
Traditional Web development frameworks tightly couple the user interface (UI)
and the server. This characteristic has two significant implications:
Prototyping is difficult Development is server-focused
Prototyping
Traditional Web frameworks make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to
create prototypes. The tight coupling between the UI and the server dictates
that you must write and run server code to do anything. This leaves you with
two options: build prototypes using a different set of technologies or don't
prototype at all. In the first case, your prototype will be thrown away,
which is obviously expensive, but there are certainly cases where it's less
expensive than forgoing a prototype all together.
Server-Focused Development
Starting development with traditio... (more)
The world of web development is moving away from MVC-based web architectures
and towards a client/server model that is probably best described as RIA +
SOA, where RIA represents the rich user interface and SOA represents the
services that it consumes.
There has been a lot of buzz around rich Web 2.0 applications, but they will
not become mainstream until the next generation of web platform... (more)
Nolan Wright is co-founder and CTO of Appcelerator, leading the company's product and services organizations. Prior to starting Appcelerator, he led engineering and product management at Vocalocity. He has also held several senior technology, product management and consulting positions with Accenture, Netscape Communications and Vertical One. Wright is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he earned his BEEE in Electrical Engineering. For more information, please visit http://www.appcelerator.org.
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