Awesome writeup by Chris Corbyn (author of Swift Mailer): “Apparently the front controller is a commonly misunderstood design pattern so I figured I’d throw out some thoughts to the masses.”
“Perhaps most important, Zeldman helped to pioneer the movement known as standards-based design—a yawn-inducing term that basically ensures that a Web site can be used by someone using any browser and any Web-enabled device.”
“Like Yahoo! Pipes before it, the Google Mashup Editor provides a simple interface that enables developers to make basic web applications and mashups quickly. And again, like Yahoo! Pipes, it is very definitely aimed at developers.”