Author: Brad Abrams | Posted on: 11/17/2008 7:35:01 AM | Views : 885

Ccontinuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This annotation is found in Chapter 2: Framework Design Fundamentals. Joe and Chris nail the core things. JOE DUFFY As software developers, we enjoy creating fun and powerful new capabilities, and sharing them with other developers. That’s one of the reasons API design is so enjoyable. But it’s also incredibly difficult to step back and objectively assess whether some new capability that you’re particularly passionate about has utility in the real world. Using scenarios is the best way I know of to identify the need for and ideal usage of new capabilities. Developing scenarios is in fact incredibly...(read more) ...

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