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The Canonical Design Sketch

June 26th, 2009 · No Comments · HumansAndTech, SoftwareDev

We’re having a TiddlyWeb fest tomorrow, and I explained one of the things I want to get out of it is a canonical design sketch.

Luke Hohman’s superb text, Beyond Software Architecture, explains how he comes into a project and asks people to draw the architecture. A great predictor of the project’s state is whether people [...]

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Ajax Lite Versus Ajax Deluxe

February 16th, 2006 · 4 Comments · HumansAndTech, Links, SoftwareDev

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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Server-Centric versus Browser-Centric

November 17th, 2005 · 2 Comments · SoftwareDev

James Strachan: Is Ajax gonna kill the web frameworks?:

So is the web application of the future going to be static HTML & JavaScript, served up by Apache with Ajax interacting with a bunch of XML based web services (maybe using SOAP, maybe just REST etc)? If so, do we really need a web [...]

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