Web and Mobile Apps Dev

I had used Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and other Adobe products long before Adobe acquired Macromedia. At that time, I didn’t know the existence of GNU/Linux and open source communities. I didn’t even decide on my career as a web developer yet. Thanks to Microsoft’s announcement of Windows Vista, I decided to look for other Operating Systems beyond Windows that are able to run on the older hardware eternally (by the way, I didn’t know other OSes besides Windows back then), meaning that the future version of OS will still be able to work on old hardware. I found GNU/Linux, specifically Ubuntu.

After one year of switching back and forth between GNU/Linux and Windows, I finally made the decision to stick to GNU/Linux. However, I still would test the browser compatibility in IE through VirtualBox. And here comes my hatred of MSIE. During the course of my web development, I’ve read numerous articles about how Microsoft doesn’t follow the W3C standards for their Internet Explorer to make web developers suffer from browser incompatibility issue. I had enough struggle for the Internet Explorer, I decided to use some jQuery to encourage those who view my website to ditch their Internet Explorer.

I have become to hate Adobe since the day I switched to the Eclipse and NetBeans IDE to develop my projects. After Adobe announced that Flash Builder and ColdFusion Builder are based on the Eclipse, I was excited to know that Adobe finally makes their development tools available on all of the major OSes. It disappointed me when I went to download the beta version of these two builders, it only offers Windows and Mac versions, no GNU/Linux version anywhere. Since Eclipse uses its own EPL license instead of GPL license to govern the use of Eclipse, Adobe can make modification to its code and sell it as their own products. This doesn’t mean that Adobe can discriminate against GNU/Linux users from using their products since Adobe uses Linux on their Adobe.com website.

As an opposite effect, these hatreds actually make me become more involved with open source technologies, such as HTML 5 and Ogg theora. I use open source ColdFusion engine Railo to develop ColdFusion websites as well. I think that ActionScript will be replaced by jQuery and other JavaScript frameworks and FLV will be replaced by either H264 or Ogg Theora depending on which side will win the online video wars.

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