An excellent piece
from
Ryan Tomayko
at
lesscode.org
about grokking the Web. A couple of comments in particular, caught my eye;
The great majority of experience with systems was not had with the constraints of the web in place. This makes conclusions drawn from observation of existing working systems, as well as recommendations based on them, extremely unreliable.
And quoting
Adam Bosworth …
How did the web happen? People take it for granted. You just assume that there’s always been the web. You know, in the beginning there was the web and the web was good and so on but that actually isn’t true.
Indeed-y-do.
Ryan also graciously lists me amoungst those who understand the situation he
describes, and makes this observation about my email address;
Mark Baker’s username is always distobj (Distributed Object) because he was a big CORBA head.
True, initially. I picked that moniker in ’95, IIRC, when I was the local CORBA
guru at, what was at the time, the largest publically under development CORBA project.
But I continue to use it not because of momentum, nor because I’m still a fan of
CORBA (I’m not, if you wondered 8-), but because I see the World Wide Web as the uber
distributed object system that I’ve been looking for since my university days.
I just had to squint a little to
see it
(and though the purist distributed object view
works 99% of the time, it has gotten me
into trouble
on occasion).