How many techs does a web dev use?

Sofware engineer might be the best job in America, but when you tally them up, most web application developers still need to use, on a regular basis, a stunning array of technologies.

1. Desktop operating system
2. Telnet or Remote Desktop
3. Server operating system
4. Email
5. Web Browser
6. Internet Relay Chat or Instant Messenger
7. An IDE (Eclipse, Visual Studio, Aptana) or programmers editor
8. Image editor
9. HTML
10. CSS
11. JavaScript
12. DOM
13. HTTP
14. HTTPS
15. XHR (XMLHttpRequest)
16. Cookies
17. POP / SMTP
18. High-level language (Java, C#, Ruby, …)
19. XML
20. Unit testing framework (xUnit, TestNG)
21. SQL
22. DBMS (MySQL, SQL Server)
23. Data access framework (Hibernate, iBATIS)
24. Web server
25. Web container
26. Web services (SOAP, JSON RPC)
27. Server pages (JSP, ASP, PHP)
28. Page testing framework (Selenium, Mercury, WebCanoo)
29. Ajax Library (Dojo, YUI)
30. Web framework (Struts, ASP.NET, Rails)
31. Repository (SVN, CVS)
32. Wiki
33. Issue Tracker
34. Office sofware (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

And that’s not even counting readng, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic!

Unobstrusive Javascript Validation with YUI

A very cool approach to validation that plugs right into the YUI library.

I’m using this to provide validation to the DataForm Widget, which is a stepping stone toward the FLEV Widget.

Meanwhile, on the Java front:

• The ASF’s Open Letter to Sun regarding the Harmony Java Compatibility Kit

Tour de Blog - WordPress

This week’s stop on the Tour de Blog is WordPress.com, a free blogging service that also offers “completely” optional paid upgrades.

Setting up a blog on WordPress was easily enough, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to edit the theme directly. There is a CSS editor, and an impressive set of Sidebar Widgets, but no obvious capability for rolling your own. There is a Custom CSS upgrade, but that’s style code only no HTML or JavaScript.

WordPress offers a rich editor and maintains the code in HTML. My initial first impressive is “pretty and featurefull, but sluggish”.

At the end of the series, I’ll provide a roundup with more indepth remarks, but I’d like to give several systems a try before comment on more than the initial impression.

To access the blog system of the week, follow the http://husted.com/ted/blog/index.html link. Feel free to re-up for the feed, so as to give each system a fair test. Of course, if anyone has a preference or other feedback, feel free to comment.

But, wait there’s more …

This site is being used a part of my April “Tour de Blog“.

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