Difference between revisions of "Zen of Web"
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* The world is your audience | * The world is your audience | ||
* You GET what you need | * You GET what you need | ||
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* Resource-oriented (vs. service-oriented) | * Resource-oriented (vs. service-oriented) | ||
* Tagsoup tastes good | * Tagsoup tastes good | ||
Revision as of 23:06, 29 November 2010
This is a collaborative effort to document the subtleties of building applications on the Web. The idea took inspiration from the Zen of Python. Please feel free to edit/add items below:
- Default to open
- Less is more
- Everything is broken
- View the source Luke
- Keep it simple
- Nobody knows if you are a dog
- Explicit is better than implicit
- Pave the cowpaths
- Small pieces, loosely joined
- de facto usually beats de jure
- No permission needed
- Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept.
- Follow your nose
- Everything is intertwingled
- The world is your audience
- You GET what you need
- You can't always GET what you want
- Resource-oriented (vs. service-oriented)
- Tagsoup tastes good
- A resource can be anything
- Caching is your friend
- Media types are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
If it turns into a useful list it could be turned into a collaborative code4lib2011 lightning talk or something.
