Software Architecture
- The Rule of Least Powerful: Use the least powerful to solve a problem. Simple, and no simpler.
- REST philosophy.
- Extreme late-binding and OOP: it permits you to not commit too early to the one true way of solving an issue, makes it easier to change decisions, and build systems that you can change while it’s still running.
- Three key elements of hypermedia: messages (HTTP and HTML), actions, vocabularies.
- A message centric web design, thank of the failed examples like Java Applets, Flash, and XHTML.
- The value of a well-designed object is when it has such as rich set of affordances that the people who use it can do things with it that the designer never imagined. — Donald Norman
- “Whatever we build—if we build it well—is likely to be used in unexpected ways, by unknown people, to solve as yet unheard-of problems.”