I spent most of 2008 staring at Visual Studio, MSSQL, FlexBuilder, and PHP. What new hotness did I miss?
+1, havent worked with it, but man I hope I can never write JScript again
jcollum
2009-01-23 23:09:48
+1 yeah jQuery is pretty awesome.
Spencer Ruport
2009-01-23 23:12:58
+2
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On the browser side, Silverlight 2. It's a pretty drastic change (no javascript) from v1 so I'm counting it as a 2008 technology.
jcollum
2009-01-23 23:08:24
+3
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Scala got a lot of attention, especially within the Java community.
Jim Anderson
2009-01-23 23:10:36
Ooh, that's interesting. Last time I looked, all the Java developers were supposed to be excited about Groovy. Have you seen any comparisons to F#, or going back further, O'Caml?
Eric
2009-01-23 23:23:58
@Eric: Yea, I thought about mentioning Groovy as well as it continues to gain momentum as well, but went with Scala because I thought it was bigger news in 2008 and Groovy has been building for a few years. You are right though, Groovy is hot.
Jim Anderson
2009-01-24 02:56:44
+4
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Processing for cool drawings and iteractive drawings in webpages --> http://processing.org/
Bringing Opengl directly to your browser :)
fmsf
2009-01-23 23:25:12
+1
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You may have missed making hundreds of dollars on iTouch/iPhone applications that make "my first application" look complicated (like this one). Just enough money to recoup the cost of buying the hardware to produce the application on!
Chris S
2009-01-24 00:31:17