Javascript - Still Object-Oriented

With AJAX/RIA moving beyond the browser with things like AIR and lower level capabilities expanding with JSON, SQLite, XMPP et al, all we need now is real 3D! Well, as Russell Beattie notes

I think we’re moving in that direction, already, no? I just want it to move faster!

Since recently stumbling upon POW - the incredible Plain Old Webserver plugin for Firefox, I’ve been looking at Server-Side Javascript implementations. Here are some rambling thoughts.

Jaxer from Aptana is a full featured AJAX server that’s integrated with the Aptana IDE - WOW! If they find a way to make hosting for this cheap and easy to set up it’s going to be a barn burner. Until then though, Jaxer provides a next level of capability beyond POW wrt turning your pc into a powerful peer. As exciting as POW is, running under Firefox there’s no way to get really good uptime under the best of circumstances and I wouldn’t be shocked to find it chewing up huge amounts of memory if left running for extended periods.

AppJet is an interesting hosted service but it’s not clear what their business model will be going forward.

Looking at all this good stuff had me feeling like I really need to get to Part 2 of AJAX and the New Web: Back to the Future Again but then I came across this great cartoon - The Development Circle of Life which gives me til 2010 - LOL