Zen of Web
Revision as of 20:28, 22 November 2010 by Acdha (Talk | contribs) (Added some Postel-inspired advice)
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
- Explicit is better than implicit
- Pave the cowpaths
- Small pieces, loosely joined
- de facto usually beats de jure
- No permission needed
- Follow your nose
- Everything is intertwingled
- The world is your audience
- You GET what you need
- Resource-oriented (vs. service-oriented)
- Tagsoup tastes good
- A resource can be anything
- Caching is your friend
If it turns into a useful list it could be turned into a collaborative code4lib2011 lightning talk or something.