It’s never been about the open web

Warning! warning! rant ahead! I wrote this a week or two weeks ago, not being sure if I should publish it, finally decided to go for it.

The open web grinds my gear, there I said it! It seems a lot of developers wave their flags at every technology that are not open like the open web was the only solution viable. There is some sort of movement about the power of the open web and more specifically HTML5, and these days HTML5 is about pretty much anything that was added to the web stack for 2 years.

Even non developers heard of HTML5. Hell, even the web agency secretary knows the buzz word.

People supporting the Occupy Flash movement don’t get it

It seems the Occupy movement even…

Another year is ending..

Each year I highlight what has been happening in my small dev life and another year is coming to an end, so here we go.

1. Github (and git) changed everything

At the beginning of the year I moved the jQuery validationEngine plugin to github and started to learn git. First thing first, I love git. It is so refreshing to use it after 2 years of wanting to kill svn. Thanks to Github I also learned more commands than i knew with svn.

Github also supercharged the validationEngine plugin development. I have got a lot of contributions and can’t thank you enough guys for submitting pull requests. Special mention to @orefalo that really took the early development of 2.0 in his hand and made the code more professionnal.

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