frameworks

I found this blog post and it is so good, I'm just going to repost it in its entirety and be quiet:

Standing with False Prophets....

There have been several times in my life when I have built up a wealth of new knowledge but did not feel confident in comprehension and understanding until I was able to test it.

I read Benjamin Zander’s [and his wife's] book “The Art of Possibility” about four years ago and ran across a post by Valeria, with Zander speaking at the World Economic Forum.

You know that saying that goes “when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail”? It is usually an easy way to talk about using the right tool for the job. However, the converse is not always true; sometimes the right tool for a job is a hammer even though you are not working with a nail.

With the recent mania over Web 2.0 and one of it's common bretheren, AJAX (BTW, Web 2.0 doesn't specifically dictate AJAX), there has been quite a proliferation of JavaScript frameworks (and frameworks built upon frameworks): prototype, moo.fx, MochiKit, DoJo, and more...