Wednesday, February 22

2005 In Retrospect: Technology

These are the top 5 'technologies' that impressed me and/or saved my butt last year:

  • Scriptaculous, Rico, AjaxTags - AJAX made easy (the latest version of AjaxTags uses Scriptaculous).
  • Python - always reminding me why I chose computer science in the first place.
  • Ruby On Rails - very promising. I've only gone through their 15 minutes demo and wrote 1-2 small prototypes for myself, but I am impressed.
  • Spring rules. 2005 was 'The year of AOP' for me, and Spring made it a wonderful, productive experience.
  • iBatis - I've spent so much time with Hibernate doing things behind the curtains for me that I forgot how nice it is to manage SQL by myself at times.
Related post: 2005 In Retrospect: Music

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