Resource-Oriented Programming

Procedural Programming (process-centric)
Module: Structure, Messages, Behaviour, State

Object-Oriented Programming (data-centric)
Class: Structure, Messages, Behaviour
Object: Structure, Messages, Behaviour, State

Resource-Oriented Programming (interface-centric)
Resource: Structure, Behaviour, State

Too much abuse has gone on for too long...

I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.

- Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

Minimizing

Minimizing has not been easy, but in the end, the essense of Inertia will be all that was Minimized. Everything I did not include and everything I removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Lao Tse:

Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
But the empty space between them
is the essence of the wheel.

Pots are formed from clay,
But the empty space within it
is the essence of the pot.

Walls with windows and doors form the house,
But the empty space within it
is the essence of the home.

Lin Yu Tang:

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Problem Solving

Karl Gerstner:

The problem, not a theory nor a style, determines the solution.

Cordao De Ouro Roda

I like how this roda builds up, Muito Axé!

The Web Site IS the API

Web APIs Are Just Web Sites:

A short presentation on how you might like to build a simple “Web API”.

I've said this before and the reason it's important for web application developers to understand this is that it changes the way they look at and design web applications. The difference between a Web Service and a Web Application is only in the representation.