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Linux Journal Editor’s Choice Award, Development Book - Ajax Design Patterns

December 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

  Just discovered Ajax Design Patterns has received the 2006 Editor’s Choice Award from Linux Journal for books on software development. It’s a personal honour, but it’s also a sign of the groundbreaking role Ajax has played in 2006. Ajax Design Patterns, published by O’Reilly, assumes that you have a good idea of how HTTP, HTML, the […]

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How Much Docs?

July 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Nate’s talking about functional specs. How much doco happens on a project is one part opinion and one part “what do you want to optimise for?”. I generally find there’s a dichotomy in attitude to software documentation. 1. Definitive (aka normative, exhaustive, complete, bureaucratic, rigourous, formal). The ideal here is that everything should be covered in documentation […]

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