An article in my newsfire inbox caught my attention today from Malarkey titled Advocating the quiet revolution. The upshot of this is rather than whining on about people standing in the way of web standards and the revolutions on the web; just do it and let the bonus effects speak for themselves.

As with anything everyone has their own way of doing it. The fundaments of giving birth to a site and launching it are generally the same due to the nature. Yet, the way each person deals with the launch and the preperation is personal. I keep to the rule with a number of late night coding sessions, lots of coffee and generally neglecting anything else in my life for a number of days. Those around me tend to get pushed into the grunting category until I have lift off.

I have the usual feeling you get before you launch a website. This time though thanks to the brain wave I had a few months ago this is doubled. For the reboot not only this site is going live but also my own portfolio Logical Binary. The usual testing and bashing into line is double trouble for me this weekend. Thank goodness for mates which I still consider a valuable testing resource.

I remember some of the first colour schemes that rattled around the web back when it was still in nappies. There were phases as there always are with design. Some good and some down right nasty waves of band wagon design, litter the path of the web. Does anyone else remember the red and black obsession which was later revived with the matrix plague? How about the magnolia inspired beige phase? Or the time when being corporate meant being blue and grey?

My background is in software engineering and what some dinosaurs still point to with big narly sticks as “proper code”. I have dropped that habit though for many reasons beyond my love of design and chance to unit my two passions in life. Recently, I was asked to develop a system for the company I work for to manage adverts. Without a second thought I based the system on an intranet rather than turning to my old drugs of java or c++. There was no option in my mind whether you agree or disagree with my choice. I have yet to find something in the years since I got hooked on web programming to find something I had to turn back to the old drugs to accomplish.

My post yesterday about Web 2.0 and it’s evolution has made me want to write today about Web API. This can be used as a broad term. Perhaps for me a rather good article on this comes from Web 2.0: APIs Instead of GUIs by Bobby Woolf on the IBM blog. In this he looks a Web 2.0 and points to it being the third stage of the web (the stages being static, dynamic and web services). These Web API come in all shapes and sizes and have a nice ability to please all. Don’t like the way something looks but love how it works? No problem for a Web API. It just does a wonder woman twirl and transforms itself into your wildest uptime dreams.