dev|sushi

I am planning on doing a quick redesign for the month of October to support breast cancer awareness month. If you are interested in participating check it out. If instead you wish to donate money to the cause make sure to buy a few ribbons, bracelets or any other supporting product. Most importantly get the word out that checking for breast cancer is simple and should be done by all women, get a mammogram.

There seems to be a small but significant backlash to the proliferation of JavaScript. These days with buzzwords like Web 2.0 and AJAX becoming unavoidable, (see there they are again) some users seem to be getting sick of it and have started to “fight” back. Many people have started using the Firefox NoScript plug-in and others have just simply disabled JavaScript in their browsers. “Take that Web 2.0!” they shout.

I am a code control freak. If I don’t understand every aspect of how something works I can’t get comfortable using it. I don’t know a lot of programmers so I don’t know how common this is in the community. At work I program in ASP.Net using Visual Studio 2005, however, I only use it as a text editor (for the syntax highlighting and intellisense). I am not comfortable with the web project front-end since there is way too much magic going on in there. I don’t want to click a button and have the software generate a bunch of web pages, change some configuration settings and update the database. “Why?” you ask; because what if something goes wrong? I would have no idea how my own application actually works or where to begin looking for bugs. If you surf in a couple ASP.Net forums you will see a lot of users posing questions that show a definite lack of understand about how things work.