Comments on: Inside the Disaster http://thethomashowecompany.com/427/inside-the-disaster Mashing Voice and Process without Mercy Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe http://thethomashowecompany.com/427/inside-the-disaster/comment-page-1#comment-821 Joe Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:24:00 +0000 http://thethomashowecompany.com/427/inside-the-disaster#comment-821 Yeah I can definitely agree with that. There does seem to be a strong bias against RoR and what is "thought" to be the standard platforms to develop telecom web apps on. I am a firm believer in the agile stratgey, which means you don't necessarily have to build everything from scratch. Harnessing the power of frameworks already built that enable the development to be quicker to market I think are key. Talked to a Sales Engineer today in the telecom industry regarding VXML apps and it was interesting to understand his point of view. He was trying to get a handle on how the web can play a much more important role. Keep the innovation up, I think this is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to web apps that involve integrations with VoIP technologies (whether that physically includes voice or not). Yeah I can definitely agree with that. There does seem to be a strong bias against RoR and what is “thought” to be the standard platforms to develop telecom web apps on.

I am a firm believer in the agile stratgey, which means you don’t necessarily have to build everything from scratch. Harnessing the power of frameworks already built that enable the development to be quicker to market I think are key.

Talked to a Sales Engineer today in the telecom industry regarding VXML apps and it was interesting to understand his point of view. He was trying to get a handle on how the web can play a much more important role.

Keep the innovation up, I think this is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to web apps that involve integrations with VoIP technologies (whether that physically includes voice or not).

]]> By: Thomas Howe http://thethomashowecompany.com/427/inside-the-disaster/comment-page-1#comment-820 Thomas Howe Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:31:11 +0000 http://thethomashowecompany.com/427/inside-the-disaster#comment-820 Hey Joe - Yes, I understand where you're coming from... completely. And in fact, you're right about different technologies as well, one of the wonderful things about web as platform development is that you can arbitrarily change your integration technology. I mean, as you know, try to take an arbitrary C library and integrate a Java SWING application on top of it. Not a whole bunch of fun. I think the reasons why I'm harping on this undeniable-web-technology thing is that I think the vast majority of telecom guys don't live in that world, and being a bit extreme about my position makes the point about the differences between the technology sets. Thanks for the comment. Hey Joe –
Yes, I understand where you’re coming from… completely. And in fact, you’re right about different technologies as well, one of the wonderful things about web as platform development is that you can arbitrarily change your integration technology. I mean, as you know, try to take an arbitrary C library and integrate a Java SWING application on top of it. Not a whole bunch of fun.

I think the reasons why I’m harping on this undeniable-web-technology thing is that I think the vast majority of telecom guys don’t live in that world, and being a bit extreme about my position makes the point about the differences between the technology sets.

Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Joe http://thethomashowecompany.com/427/inside-the-disaster/comment-page-1#comment-819 Joe Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:50:01 +0000 http://thethomashowecompany.com/427/inside-the-disaster#comment-819 Interesting article. However, I have to ask, what is "True-Blue web"? In reality, alot of developers are fighting to disprove the fact that Ruby on Rails can't scale and can be just as enterprise as .NET and Java. Voice Mashups can use a bunch of different tecnologies, all to accomplish the same feats. I think it's just personal preference. Jott - .NET Jaxtr - Java etc. etc. Interesting article. However, I have to ask, what is “True-Blue web”?

In reality, alot of developers are fighting to disprove the fact that Ruby on Rails can’t scale and can be just as enterprise as .NET and Java.

Voice Mashups can use a bunch of different tecnologies, all to accomplish the same feats. I think it’s just personal preference.

Jott – .NET
Jaxtr – Java
etc. etc.

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