Technology
Trends
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Me
www.henryjacob.com
What I Do
www.designdrivendevelopment.org
Where I work
www.arrkgroup.com

Simple Application
in Java or .Net?

List - Customers Edit - Customer
1001 Joe [edit] [delete] Cust. No.
1002 Jack [edit] [delete]
Name
Address
[new customer]
New - Customer Delete - Customer
Cust. No.
[Ok] [Cancel]
Name
Address
unique
mandatory

Rails Demo

You can develop software
in minutes

Technology Adaptation Life Cycle

Source: Crossing the chasm

Adaptation of Video Formats
As of today (Aug 2007)
Blue-ray
DVD VCD VHP
HDDVD

Any new technology needs
time to reach mainstream

Why should I Change?

1904

1940

2007

Technology in the early Advanced Technology
stage Focus on ‘wants’
Focus on ‘needs’ Focus on usability
Focus on functionality More Competition
Less Competition
Context of the business is different
Technology used is different
Skills required to build these are different

Web

Web 2.0

Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Dialup Broadband
Functionality Design & Usability
Page driven Interactive
Information Social/Collaborative
Static Intelligence/Learning
Context of the business is different
Technology used is different
Skills required to build these are different

UI/Interaction
Design Concepts
Languages
Frameworks
Methodology/Process

UI/Interaction

Rich Client Applications (RIA)

Demo

Flex. Sliverlight. Openlaszlo.
Adobe/OS Microsoft Open Source
MXML XAML LZX
Actionscript3 C#/JS/Ruby ECMAScript
Flash Player 9 S/L Runtime Flash Player
.Net/J2EE .Net J2EE
(Preferred)

Interactive Web

HTML/CSS/AJAX
JavaScript Frameworks
qooxdoo, openrico, spry, dojo,
prototype, jQuery, prototype
window, yahoo widgets,
script.aculo.us

Design

Design doesn’t stop @
OOP/OOAD

SOA
[Service Oriented Architecture]

REST
[Representational State Transfer]

Metaprogramming

Languages

Ruby
[OO, Dynamic, Metaprogramming]
[.Net (IronRuby) JVM (JRuby)]

Groovy
[OO, Dynamic, Metaprogramming]
[JVM]

Python
[OO, Dynamic, Metaprogramming]
[.Net (IronPython) JVM (JPython)]

Frameworks

Rails
[Convention over configuration
Don't repeat yourself]

Grails

Methodology

Unrealistic Deadlines
Poor Estimation
Requirement Changes
Immature Architecture and Design
No Domain Knowledge
Too Many Assumption
Bad Code Quality
No Documentation or Too much
Death March
It’s not my code-Attitude
Inadequate Testing

Agile
[Simple. Proven. Works.]

SCRUM
D3
XP

Design Driven
Development (D3)
www.designdrivendevelopment.org

Web2.0 Silverlight Enterprise2.0
Openlaszlo
Flex XAML
RIA
CSS Groovy
Ruby
MXML REST
Actionscript3 AJAX SOA
Rails Grails Metaprogramming
qooxdoo openrico D3 SCRUM XP
spry dojo prototype
Agile
jQuery yahoo widgets
Python
script.aculo.us

Where is my Java?

JAVA Groovy JRuby JPython
Byte code
JVM

Sample Architecture 1
AJAX/Javascript Frameworks
Groovy/Grails
(JBOSS, EJB)
JVM

Sample Architecture 2
Flex/Openlazslo
SOA/REST
J2EE (JBOSS, EJB)
JVM

Web2.0 Silverlight Enterprise2.0
Openlaszlo
Flex XAML
RIA
CSS Groovy
Ruby
MXML REST
Actionscript3 AJAX SOA
Rails Grails Metaprogramming
qooxdoo openrico D3 SCRUM XP
spry dojo prototype
Agile
jQuery yahoo widgets
Python
script.aculo.us

This is just a beginning

Web 3.0

Enterprise 3.0