Extracted Standards

harrisj — Mon, 02 May 2005 21:39:00 -0700

Still busy, but there is a great article at O'Reilly Radar on how great frameworks are sometimes extracted wholesale from successful applications rather than built from scratch up. That is, it's often better to extract the framework from the application, rather than build the application on top of a framework:

That is, at 37signals, they try to design the usability and function of the application first, and that drives the implementation. And if they can then extract a re-usable framework, all the better. For example, basecamp wasn't built on top of Ruby on Rails. Rather, Ruby on Rails was extracted from basecamp.

This echoes some of the complaints I was making earlier about the unwieldiness of SOAP for web standards. And it fits in with the philosophy of nimble technologies perfectly. Create a product, solve a need, and make it work great and the frameworks will follow, but complicated frameworks in themselves solve nothing.

Nimble Code: Extracted Standards

Extracted Standards