Monthly Archives: October 2005
The colours they are a changing
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?
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The death of the application
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.
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Mighty morphing API rangers
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.
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