Think Like The Web - Logbook

Think Like The Web # 10 Nov 2011: Good stuff by Udell as usual.

1. Be the authoritative source for your own data

2. Pass by reference not by value

3. Know the difference between structured and unstructured data

4. Create and adopt disciplined naming conventions

5. Push your data to the widest appropriate scope

6. Participate in pub/sub networks as both a publisher and a subscriber

7. Reuse components and services

…The web’s “small pieces loosely joined” architecture echoes what in another era we called the Unix philosophy. Web thinkers design reusable parts, and also reuse such parts where possible, because they know that the web both embodies and rewards this strategy.