One big area that can't be ignored is JSON serialization. There was a thread on here the other day about how someone had sped up messaging in Python by 500% over a common library for messaging provided by Google. I took a look at the messages, and they looked surprisingly like JSON. This was a C library. So, my take away, was that JSON is a great choice for end-to-end messaging. JSON is very popular in Javascript development, plus every major web framework supports in natively including ASP.NET/WCF who have their own serializers for .NET classes complete with type-hints for deserialization.
I'm really excited about technologies like ZeroMQ for IPC which has libraries for all major programming languages. Zed Shaw integrated it into Mongrel2, which is where I first heard about it.
Patio11 stated the other day, that in all his enterprise development work, there was not a single case where XML (which they always used for some reason) was superior to JSON.
I'll let other people pipe up about jQuery, but if you're new to jQuery, now is a great time to learn, because version 1.5 just introduced all kinds of new event goodies which will require me to unlearn the way I currently program using jQuery, because they're that good.
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One big area that can't be ignored is JSON serialization. There was a thread on here the other day about how someone had sped up messaging in Python by 500% over a common library for messaging provided by Google. I took a look at the messages, and they looked surprisingly like JSON. This was a C library. So, my take away, was that JSON is a great choice for end-to-end messaging. JSON is very popular in Javascript development, plus every major web framework supports in natively including ASP.NET/WCF who have their own serializers for .NET classes complete with type-hints for deserialization.
I'm really excited about technologies like ZeroMQ for IPC which has libraries for all major programming languages. Zed Shaw integrated it into Mongrel2, which is where I first heard about it.
Patio11 stated the other day, that in all his enterprise development work, there was not a single case where XML (which they always used for some reason) was superior to JSON.
I'll let other people pipe up about jQuery, but if you're new to jQuery, now is a great time to learn, because version 1.5 just introduced all kinds of new event goodies which will require me to unlearn the way I currently program using jQuery, because they're that good.