Tag: abstraction
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Redundancy in Web App Architecture
I’m not sure I understand Brent Simmons’ problem, here. If you need the same code running on two or three small specialized web-servers, just write it once in a library and include it in each of them. The repetition of running instances isn’t worth worrying about. I’m wondering if his problem is really a lack…
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
Good overview by Damien Katz.
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Mark Bernstein : It’s easy to add generality to a spec. It makes you look really smart, especially when someone else is going to do the coding. But too much generality too soon makes the code age prematurely; you can get old, brittle, confusing code that looks like it’s yellowed with age, even though it’s…
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I certainly like the look of CoffeeScript. Not quite sure what it’s for yet. Is it just a nicer looking syntactic sugar on top of javascript? Or are there some powerful abstractions that simplify doing larger scale js work? (a la jQuery?)
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Richard Gabriel is thinking and speaking about Ultra-large Scale, Resilient, Systems. Essential reading.
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My post yesterday on Composing, about Geeks, Suits and Abstraction is relevant to SDI philosophy too. Executive Summary : Geeks, by definition, have to be good at shifting their thinking between different levels of abstraction; Suits, by temperament, believe in the rigid separation of levels into the corporate hierarchy and would love for technology to…
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Listen everyone, I gotta come out to you all … I am now officially an outliner. For a long time I thought that outlines, like all hierarchical documents, were limited and inferior to graph-shaped wikis. Now I get it. The point of the outliner is not the hierarachical structure as a navigation aid – free-form…