Legends

I am a closeted artist. I derive a lot of pleasure from creating things and experiencing the things others create. On a lot of levels. Music, check. Paintings, check. Literature, check. Web pages, check? Advertisement campaigns, check?!? DojoToolKit, check..... Actually, check!

So what is it that I love about it? I dunno. My brother introduced me to it yesterday, and as soon as I got home, I booted my laptop and went to their site to noodle around. Now, I do virtually no web programming myself. I use .php, coldFusion, Ajax, etc, to their full extent. I find things I like and install them. I probably drive my brother nuts with requests to upgrade my site or drop another .php thing in my directory. (Side benefit with a genius ColdFusion developer for a brother, server space. Take note and spread the word.) The only reason this blog is here instead of my own space is that I am a bit shy to ask for another addition, since he just put a wiki up for me not so long ago.

So what is legendary? In music I have a few opinions:

• Led Zeppelin
• Pink Floyd
• Rush
• Dave Mathews Band

Art:

• Michelangelo
• Picasso
• Vermeer

Literature:

• Shakespeare
• Heinlein
• Jordan?
• Anthony?

So what will be the legends of the web-page and information exchange art? Google? Amazon? Will DojoToolKit make the grade. It's been interesting to watch the increasing encroachment of the internet into our lives. I remember writing pages when basically everything was client side, javascript was king, and frames were the neatest thing. Now Dojo is making all that look really sick. The implementation is so simple. Drop it in your directory and fire away. There wil lbe the usual learning curve, but imagine what this inspires....