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This is a collaborative effort to document the subtleties of building applications on the Web. The idea took inspiration from the [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ Zen of Python]. Please feel free to edit/add items below:
* Default to open
* Less is more
* View the source Luke
* Keep it simple
* Nobody knows if you are a dog
* 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
* Be the authoritative source for your own data
* Pass by reference not by value
* Know the difference between structured and unstructured data
* Create and adopt disciplined naming conventions
* Push your data to the widest appropriate scope
* Reuse components and services
* 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. Some of these were heisted from a [http://blog.jonudell.net/2011/01/24/seven-ways-to-think-like-the-web/ similar list] by Jon Udell.
