Irrational Exuberance

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I spent much of the day writing Mahou, which is the Japanese word for magic, and is now also a Yahoo! Boss Search Mashup Framework and Cappuccino (and Google App Engine, while we're at it) powered image search engine. It's a pretty interesting application, and even the least technical readers might enjoy playing around with it a bit.

You are responding to this comment written by Jon on September 9th 2008, 11:30.

You should lookup what the name of your app means in Hawaiian.

Anyway, I'm not an application developer. I develop utilities mostly for websites and data processing of my own. I've been using PHP lately, but I have a background in JavaScript. I'd say I do ok with Objective-C

Coming from that background, I see Cappuccino as having the potential to create an explosive evolution in web development, provided that it eventually gets some sort of visual development environment, whether it's Interface Builder or not.

What you and I might lament as the lack of hacking is the ability for someone to make something useful and fast. So I think it's a good thing. It's not a replacement for all things, but it's a good thing.

That said, I am not sure that it replaces the need to know a server side language. It just lets you build client side apps. Depending on what you do, it may still need something to talk to.

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