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Memorable Quotes from Day 1 of the Rich Web Experience (some paraphrased):

Stuart Halloway:
“XSLT is the worst thing to happen to functional programming in 25 years”
“Given the state of testing, its shameful to release a toolkit with no tests”
“There are good programmers and not good programmers. Anyone that has to qualify that with a particular language is not a good programmer.”

Dean Saxe:
“Crypto Fairy-Dust”

Douglas Crockford:
“Write Once, Run Away Screaming”
“Wow, that has rounded corners!”
“Lets get rid of CSS”

Today was day 1 of The Rich Web Experience conference. My head is still spinning a bit. Its surreal to see and meet the people I feel like I’ve known for so long from having read their work and their blogs for so many years now.

For me, the day can be summed up as: Rich Web is here, now we just need to make it work. Sure, we’ve put together some nice libraries and built and learned new, rich paradigms and even have them in production web applications. But its HARD, fragile, slow, insecure, hard to test, and ultimately needs to change. Thats not to say we’re going down the wrong path…we’re trying to find the right one. There is some really cool work going on in the space, and we are evolving and improving the human/computer interaction every day. That evolution will come along for the ride and eventually have a place in the future of Rich Web(s).