Monday, September 22, 2003

Stunting a Framework. Ian Rae has an interesting observation on frameworks in this comment thread on Michael Feather's post, Stunting a Framework: There are two forces pulling on a framework. From above there is feature creep pulling the framework into a larger and larger scope. From below there are portability issues pulling the framework into creating infrastructure. Sound familiar. The old spanning layer issue. The key here, which the other comments hint at in their mention of "pattterns," is to base the "framework" on a simple set of identifiers, formats, and protocols that can be used for a wide variety of applications and bound to a wide variety of implementations. This is why the emerging Web Services framework is the right approach. 5:01:22 AM

Sun has no clue, er, strategy, regarding Linux. Robert Scoble's post re Don Box's post led me to this gem of ignorance and arrogance. 4:35:40 AM