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Short and good article about the balance between the number of features and simplicity. The eyeopener here is that many features also cost a lot. Not just from lost efficiency, but also because products are returned to the manufacturer.
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I haven’t really thought of RIA’s this way before. The point isn’t really that RIA’s shouldn’t be done, but they should fit the mental model of the user. And this mental model has been shaped by normal webpages, does the RIA then fit this model?
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Draft article on the importance of combining exploration and exploitation of markets in one organisation. It turns out that many old companies that were able to keep up with changing needs were good at this ambidexterity.
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REST has grown from an “obsure” Ph.D. thesis by Roy Fielding to the basis for new thinking about web services. This article talks about a new book (RESTful Web Services). Might be insteresting for thinking about post-R&D product development.
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Looks like fun site to plan a trip.
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How’s that for Django scalability!
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Every time we go a abstraction level higher, the complexity (or chaos) of the system increases. Especially with asynchronous processes. I realise that my graduation work was also about this: how to harness the chaos of a system with software agents.
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Article on yet another web framework. Difference here is that it is focussed on pure REST. When you read it, it seems like you’re reading Django code, but it isn’t…