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+title: A new approach to development
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+- Development
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+As the Web users number increases, so does the number of Web collaborators,
+should we call them this way. In fact, we keep watching the wonderful things
+the Web has brought since Tim Berners Lee. Today we see a lot of applications
+and a lot of content that increases everyone's attention to one thing: the
+Internet is not just for richest and the most powerful. It reaches everyone.
+
+Developers should take this seriously, as we are Web users as well. We all
+enjoy beautifully crafted web pages and the seamless complexity of a web
+application like <a title="Facebook" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a>,
+<a title="Drupal" href="http://drupal.org">Drupal</a>, <a
+href="http://digg.com">Digg</a>, <a href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a>,
+amongst others. Have we even noticed what's underneath it all? Sounds
+interesting... I want to share a very simple guideline that's amazingly
+powerful for anyone to grab onto: <em>high-level interfacing.</em> Imagine
+anything you want. I'm picking a blog, for example; like this one. Yea, that's
+right: this very blog has this guideline applied.
+
+A blog as we know it has some basic features:
+
+  * has several "entries";
+  * can be commented by anyone (registered or not);
+  * can be categorized and it is run by it own author, like a journal.
+
+Now imagine yourself with your journal in front of you, all you have to do as
+an author is write in it. As a reader, you just want to read and comment it.
+You just wished you had a button called "Post!" and a button called "Post
+comment!". It's all part of the same thing, the same object.  Wait a minute:
+this reminds me of those boring C++ classes where the teacher yelled at us:
+"It's a single object, with its unique methods!". Well, why not try the same
+thing in your tiny little webapp?
+
+Start thinking about the things our blog example can do. Each feature you think
+of should be a function of our new Blog class/interface - I'd rather consider
+this an interface, so it can be implemented in any way you like -.  At the end
+of it all you'll come up with a neat, professional and clean set of functions
+organized in a single structure, thus gaining sense for the user that actually
+uses it and for the developer that immediately recognizes the whole structure
+and workflow.
+
+This is high-level information processing; a new approach to web development.