From 3204575bfcd1f12db5945c8959073d40915cfdfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JoseĢ Mota Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 19:40:37 +0100 Subject: Import all posts. --- ...07-12-21-a-new-approach-to-development.markdown | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2007-12-21-a-new-approach-to-development.markdown (limited to '_posts/2007-12-21-a-new-approach-to-development.markdown') diff --git a/_posts/2007-12-21-a-new-approach-to-development.markdown b/_posts/2007-12-21-a-new-approach-to-development.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1fcc39e --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2007-12-21-a-new-approach-to-development.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: A new approach to development +tags: +- Development +status: publish +type: post +published: true +meta: + _edit_last: '1' +--- +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 Facebook, +Drupal, Digg, del.icio.us, +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: high-level interfacing. 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf