Codeasaurus Rex

This is my entry point into the blogosphere.

To begin with, I intend to compare current web technology with the expectations ingrained in me by years of large, mission-critical systems experience. I’ll go easy, though, because I’ve also had my hand in sub-mainframe technologies going back to

• CPM
• Commodore 64
• MS-DOS 2.0
• CBASIC
• Windows 3.0
• Xenix
• the 128K RAM Macintosh
• CompuServe

and remember them fondly.

I also remember, although less fondly, the crazy early years of the World Wide Web when volumes of copy-and-mangle HTML with ransom note-typography spilled from the pens of budding Shakespeares only to emerge disfigured from the incompatibilities of the Browser Wars, and CGI programs ruled the Earth. Toy systems were deployed as business websites and keeled over during the first flush of success, while us pros wondered “Why doesn’t anybody seem interested in our knowledge of how to build large, scalable systems?”

Oh, well, the lessons of the mainframe era were ignored but eventually relearned although modulated by new technologies and their tradeoffs. This blog will start off by stacking some of these new-fangled techniques up against the Old Ways, especially some of the Old Ways that haven’t been much improved upon. (Feh!)

Well, I guess that pretty much pigeonholes this survivor of punched cards and teletypes, Codeasaurus Rex.