Articles on Software Design

Andy Peterson

I get tired of hunting through a hierarchy of folders and files, from the views to the public folder, to locate a certain CSS or Javascript file. It’d be convenient to have them right with the markup, but embedding these definitions within your HTML markup is a bad idea for several reasons. For our current …

Alon Salant

I’ve been meaning to bring an ongoing discussion about remote API design to this forum. A recent post to the Caucho hessian-interest mailing list prompted me to write a response that I am essentially reposting here. The question at hand is what is the best approach for designing, publishing and versioning remote service APIs. Through …