Software As She’s Developed

Imagine a tool that does lots of things, and another that does one thing really well. And imagine both of them are free. Long Tail theory suggests the specialised tool wins, right? No, maybe not. If the general-purpose thing does an okay job, many will prefer it instead. Why? Because there’s a premium […]

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I got bitten with this in the RESTful Services pattern. What does URI stands for? (A) Universal Resource Identifier (B) Uniform Resource Identifier (C) Universal Resource Indicator (D) Uniform Resource Indicator The most up-to-date answer is actually the second choice above - it’s the title of this RFC. But the RFC explicitly mentions an earlier paper which uses the first choice. So […]

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I had a funny story the other day: Someone referred me to Ajax Patterns. While researching a number of patterns, I contacted relevant developers for their take, as reflected in the pattern-specific acknowledgements. I have to say I’m very grateful for everyone’s help and most people have given me plenty of detail. While researching one pattern […]

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Harry Fuecks suggests there are two types of Ajax apps: HTML++ and Client/SOA. This is something I’ve noticed too, and it cuts right across the Ajax architecture, impacting on the user-interface, the physical architecture (browser-server separation) and the abilities of the developers involved. The “Ajax App” pattern addresses this as a decision. It’s the root pattern […]

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Carlos Viellas has been watching contractors waste time (emphasis mine): As I see it, there are two positive incentives: peer pressure in justifying rates, and collecting good contacts and references. In the situations we have been witnessing, those pale next to doing whatever is possible to extend the contract, which more often than not are some […]

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I’m pleased that AjaxPatterns.org seems to have entered the pattern community radar in the past couple of months (or maybe earlier, but that’s the impression I’m getting) … Workshop on Ajax Patterns Ralph Johnston (of GoF Design Patterns fame) runs a regular patterns reading group/workshop and they’ve been looking at the Ajax patterns. Fortunately, they release the […]

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