Had a great few weeks off to ease into 06, but back at HQ and really looking forward to the year ahead! Got lots of things I want to write about including migrating our 12GB VSS install to TFS, but more of that in the coming weeks.
Saw this from Jeff Zledman that I thought was a really interesting read of the web landscape over the next 12 - 18 months. My favorite part was:
"Consider this scenario:
Steven, a young web wiz, has just celebrated his bar mitzvah. He received a
dozen gifts and must write a dozen thank-you notes. Being webbish, he creates an
on-line “Thank-You Note Generator.” Steven shows the site to his friends, who
show it to their friends, and soon the site is getting traffic from recipients
of all sorts of gifts, not just bar mitzvah stuff.
If Steven created the site with CGI and Perl and used tables for layout, this is the
story of a boy who made a website for his own amusement, perhaps gaining social
points in the process. He might even contribute to a SXSW Interactive panel.
But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim
O’Reilly will beg him to keynote."
Sounds mighty similar to 2000, I just people remember the leasons :)