Software As She’s Developed

Architecture, Patterns, Town Planning Any book on patterns must include the obligatory Christopher Alexander discussion. In my case, it’s brief, for the following reason: One side benefit of this project has been to see how “patterns” are being accepted by the development community. The attention on the Ajax Patterns has always been on the “Ajax” and not […]

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… a blog entry in which I define the term “proving”. I’m defining it here because I needed to link to a definition and couldn’t find a suitable URL to point to. A few years ago, we were in a meeting when an architect explained to the project manager “we’ll be spending the first few weeks […]

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Here’s a heads-up on the tutorial to be included with “Ajax Design Patterns”. I’ll let you know when the tutorial text is available, but for now, the demos are running: Demos for the AjaxPatterns Tutorial The first half is a fairly standard intro to Ajax, using the Foundational Technologies patterns (Display Manipulation, Web Remoting, Dynamic Behaviour). The second […]

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