dantheta

This definitely looks interesting to me. Although I only occasionally write webapps, the web developers who sit near me regularly seem to have to spend a lot of time dealing with problems like jQuery event handler race conditions, JS and server-side state mismatch and so on.

All of it made me wonder if HTML and JS (with jQuery et al) were really the right tools for developing rich user interfaces, or if it was time to look at an alternatives for apps in the browser - although Flash, Adobe Air and Silverlight all seem to be highly unpalatable choices.

(as for me, I'm generally happy with unstyled well-formed XHTML and doing all the work on the server with form submits and page reloads - but that's why I'm not doing webapps for a living!)

Ah, I remember server-side javascript the first time it came around. I seem to remember that it was available as part of Netscape's webserver. I was using it in an electronic publishing project in 1999.

I dare say that the new incarnation is considerably different ... or at least, I hope so.

I completely agree - PCI/DSS pretty much means that your network is designed by lawyers and auditors instead of network engineers/sysadmins. It's a very unpleasant state of affairs.

It certainly can't be said that all of the payment card industry's requirements definitely increase security.

Openbox for me - extremely customizable, standards compliant, and very keyboard friendly. Good theming, well written code.