Re: 5250 programmer to web programmer

[Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/21/2010 5:05 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> It seems to me that there are pots and pots of choices out there of how
> to present and request data to users.  Not just choices of the language,
> but also the devices.  The wild-eyed requests are going to escalate over
> the near-term, and the wild-eyed requests are going to make sense.
>
> At this point is where I start to sound a tad sophomoric, but I do
> believe the following:  there will people who specialize on the front
> end, and they will be good, very good in fact.  They will have no
> knowledge, nor any interest, in the back end.  They won't care about
> constraints, keys, timestamps, triggers, data relationships, or
> enforcing business rules.  Thats not a bad thing!  They need to focus on
> the new front end.  On the other hand, the RPG programmers do know all
> these issues and how to deal with them.
>
> It is my opinion that there is a strong need for finding ways to couple
> these two elements into teams that soar.  I can see a bulkhead being
> formed where two experts meet, greet, and provide the future in
> wonderful new ways.

That's the question I'm asking.