The overriding and guiding principle for the development of a modern web application is to throw away most of the object oriented programming principles developed during the last century in favour of expediency in pushing out the application onto the testing environment and as the next step, onto the production system. The article on the left provides a detailed explanation of why the following paradigms are seldom observed any more:

Data Abstraction	Encapsulation
Inheritance	Polymorphism

We also discuss some concerns on productivity in the modern development environment and highlight a few examples to share our views on the results of such developments. The concluding remarks are posted below.

Abstraction of knowledge from the problem in a specific domain to the realm of bits and bytes is one of the key concepts in software design. Only after this abstraction, the requirements can be paraphrased using a high level computing language in the attempt to find a solution. Modern applications intentionally sidestep this activity in the race to build a prototype and then productize it as soon as possible.

Browser inconsistenties in the interpretation of the style sheets and lack of Javascript documentation by the developer of the web browsers in terms of what exactly is supported and how the text, image and other media are rendered on the screen are the main bottlenecks in the development of web applications.

Computer Scientists, Programmers and Software Developers have developed a strange proclivity to find the solution to a problem even before the problem is defined and the requirements are set. This results in the used of canned libraries which are undocumented, unstable, and often irrelevant to the problem being solved.

Design Patterns have been the new buzzwords in the parlance of software developers, although such patterns are also growing old and losing their novelty. These patterns are usually used in library development, and seldom have an impact of the domain problem being solved. But as long as there is money in talking such patterns and implementing them, we need not be concerned about the qualities inherent in object oriented designs.

Elegant design has not been the target of web application developers in recent days, and we can expect to see this trend to continue in the foreseeable future. If it aint losing money, we're not gonna fix it. Spell checkers are good but not full proof, but if the audience can make out what the speaker is saying, a business will not care about grammar and punctuations in its content.

Fully functional and relatively bug free software is a thing of past, unless it is funded continuously by some business or government entity with deep pockets or political interest. Examples include the Stuxnet virus or software that enable drones flying around the world fire missiles at suspected targets with pinpoint accuracy. The rest of us will have to manage with the Beta versions of evolving software, hopefully making us all a strong believer in evolution.

GUI, the graphical user interface used for the end user to communicate with a software has come a long way. However, the Web browsers can understand only html, with a little styling help from custom style sheets. Jquery provides some of the most stunning effects visible on modern web pages, but it is only a collection of Javascript functions. In conclusion, the GUI for a web application is essentially limited by what a combination of the trio of Html, Javascript and Style sheets can achieve.

Help as the right most item on the menubar of an application is possibly on its way to extinction. The only logical reason must be that it is more expensive to hire a tech writer write up that document as opposed to having people manning the phone line and chat windows for a more personalized assistance.

Internationalization, like everything else, has its time and place. When I am planning a romantic trip to Greece or a business expedition to Latin America, I do not want the map to be in the local languages - it will be all Greek and Latin to me! I can say Mushi mushi on the phone, and even muster Namaste or Nihao, but if I need to learn Thai, Mandarin or the different Japanese script to read the map while I am there, the software generating that map become pretty much useless to me.

Jquery, JScript, Jguru and all the other sons of J must be in love with that letter. May be it gives them a business advantage over that evil emperor of the PC world. They ought to be very, very careful though, because the company that invented the letter got taken over by the wizard of O.

Kind hearted individuals known as bloggers should be accredited for providing almost all of the revlevant information required for programming in the modern world. Authors of technical books take a distant second place with their obsolete and outdated books and journalists covering the technical aspects of the software world are pretty close to adhering to the oldest profession known to humanity.

Love is difficult to find on the internet unless one is prepared to shell out blobs of money. There is a lot of enticing pictures and provocative videos available free of cost, if that is our cup of tea.

Money is becoming the driving force for the development of almost all internet based applicaions, whether for the desktop or handheld devices. This is to be expected and not come to us as a surprise, since our honeymoon with the internet has been over about a decade and a half back.

New architecture or a novelty in design is hard to come by, since it will be untested by definition and not very cost efficient for implementation in a commercial system. Most of the time we need to put up with old technology in a new and expensive package. But, if the business leaders are OK with such business practices, software professionals should not be overly concerned.

Orthogonal development efforts in content management and its presentation are divergent and poses a problem for project management. The main reason is that the two groups will come up with incompatible solutions and both will have to reengineer their parts to come upto a middle ground. If there is no time for this, we shall end up with a lousy product.

Plagiarism is an accepted form of information exchange these days, as long as a link is posted to the source. There are 2 reasons for this: (1) Bytes are cheap, so instead of making up alphanumeric citation indices like [MS1974], we could copy and paste entire paragraphs of text, as long as we acknowledge the source, and (2) The source Url might vanish some day unless they are maintained online by an organization like IEEE chapter on the Sea of Links. It is better to capture more of the text in our documents.

Quiet and silent applications still rule, despite all the improvements in multimedia technologies. The reason is that as human beings, we like to keep one of our sense organs available to respond to emergencies or phone calls while working with the application.

Robust applications are no longer in style or even being built. They are expensive, and we need just enough functionality for it to meet the requirements and not break. This is why banks still use their AS400 systems and the people who could be writing robust software have mostly retired. The other issue is sellability, if we build a robust version of anything, it will be difficult to sell the next version. This is why we need so many patches and frequent upgrades, although software components are not supposed to decay like like perishable consumer products.

Server side development is all we can expect for any project. As we have described in the main article, all the client side software is embedded in the web browser over which we have no control.

Top down design is a myth from the past. We do not architect nothing no more. It is all abstracted out and compiled into libraries free to download. They say all the logic for a program should be written in XML, letting the libraries do the rest. We are not sure why we need a programming language any more.

Underground blogs, chat networks and file sharing serve the best interests of the citizenry. Most of these are free and the folks working at these networks are genuinely helpful and sincere, unlike our fake businesses and leaders who have lost their moral compass and ethical grounds in their quest for short term profits and golden parachutes.

Voice controlled applications are gaining ground in [auto] mobile industries. From the success of recent voice controlled personal assistants, we can infer that in near future, such assistants will provide personal companionship of a more intimate nature, the way our society is getting more and more fragmented.

World Wide Wait is not going to get saturated anytime soon. The bandwidth is just going to be another commodity. It remains to be seen who will pay for the petabytes of spam on the internet. It is sort of amusing that we create the spam engines to generate all the garbage and then write spam filters to filter them out of the mail boxes.

Xenomania is an inordinate amount of attachment to or a mania for foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, and cheaper workers. We can expect more jobs in every economic field outsourced to or gobbled up by foreign corporations, because of this xenomania of our business executives. Yes, money is an important concern, too.

Y2k was the last problem solved by the Computer Scientists. More than a decade has passed since then, and there has been no creative development, not a single language design, no architecture in the CPU (we are still stuck with the old CMOS technology), and we expect this trend to continue for a while.

Zeroing in on a solution is every bit as important as starting out and looking for a solution. Philosophically speaking, the path is as important, if not more, than the destination. OK, so we got all that high level of talk the other way, and hopefully no one will ever notice. Anyways, we are in the quest to solve little problems on our own, and that is what this web site is about. Thank you for reading.