http://thinkvitamin.com/dev/web-development-is-moving-on-are-you/
This quote sums it up nicely:
Web development turned from a niche for brochure-ware and intranets to one of the biggest software development environments in the market over just a few years. The web as the platform is a hollow dream no longer ‐ you can now run and develop a web application without needing to host anything yourself and you can even get the data from other sources. With this radical shift comes a lot of change for developers, but the question is, are you keeping up?
