2006-12-10 Ramblings
Sunday, December 10, 2006# It's nice to have your opinions validated by others. Damien Katz is a well respected ExIBMer, and somewhat of a legend for being the man who, single-handedly, rewrote from scratch the Domino '@functions' macro language. Regarding the recent discussions :
I said:
It's a double shame that IBM have let the web side of Domino slip because I think we are also seeing (or will see) a return of the document database (as opposed to relational) as the storage for web software . Domino has a document database with over a decade of development and improvement.
And he said:
What exactly is so unique about Notes and Domino that keep it in demand?
Here is the answer: It's the database. The Notes database model is simple and functional with built-in security and bidirectional replication. The implementation is solid, if limited, and performs pretty damn well. It easily solves many problems that are nightmares to deal with in SQL...
...Domino web development may be an exercise in frustration, but its mostly because the rest of its web development tools are outdated and inconsistent and hacky, but they are really the only way to work with and expose the power underneath. It doesn't have to be this way. IBM continues to squander a huge opportunity, and frustrated Domino developers know it.
# And something else about online music
I open my morning with music-I can't have it any other way... But I have to confess, I don't buy or download music to my computer for almost 2 years now, I have all my PlayLists saved somewhere on the Net and when I want to listen to my favorites songs, I just open a service : It could be Pandora or RadioBlogClub (my 2 leaders), and start listen. Very simple and useful.
And that makes me thing that maybe, just as big companies finally come to terms with online music in the form of digital downloads, it's going to take a completely different course...
# The net continues to find new courses. People have said, for a long time, the net is all about connections but there seems to be no end of new types of connections evolving. I'm thinking the newest feature is immediacy. Just the other day I was able to track Adrian on a long drive in his car in real time, coordinates supplied by the GPS on his phone and the tracking client supplied by NavXS . He also has Google Talk on his phone so we could chat as well as Twitter . It gave a real sense of immediacy, you weren't just reading someone's online diary, something they had posted in the past you were connected to where they were and what they were doing at that moment. It was very compelling and extremely distracting!
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