Before i can get my hands dirty, building components of a rich internet application. I first need to get my backbone installed. Since the essence of rich internet applications, in my opinion, is the real time communication with and visualisation of data out of a database in a rich user friendly interface, we need at least a……..Database! right!.

The server on which the whole development thing will run is a windows 2000 server edition on a pentium ice age with i believe something like 233 Mhz and 64 MB RAM memory. Just to give you an idea of how low the specs are ;).
On this server i installed IIS (standard on windows 2000 server edition) and MSSQL as a database backend.

With the knowledge i have at this moment of things like rich internet applications, flash remoting, etc i have a hunch i will need coldfusion as a script interpreter on IIS. So i downloaded and installed the 6.1 version of that also.

That should do it for now. Let’s get busy and do some tutorials. When anything comes out of it, i’ll yet you know.

Well for one thing because i have a hunch it will be used more frequently in the future. When clients find out about the benefits it has, the demand for them will increase…..

The problem is….. i have absolutely no idea how to build one…let alone building a great one. So therefore this site. I will make it even more hip by using a weblog package to archive every aspect of my efforts.

If anyone feels the way i did now, like you are gonna ride a bike without knowing how, please feel free to post a comment. Larger groups of people tend to get results faster ;).

Since i don’t want to put too much effort in maintaining the whole weblog thingie, you might notice some glitches or incorrect layout things in it. They might be altered in the future (although i wouldn’t get my hopes up). But for now, this movababletype engine will work just fine.

By the way…. if you look up and see the big blue square thingie, if you see anything interesting in it, it means i hit a milestone. You can read about them in the blog.