Queue everything and delight everyone. Les Orchard explains why I’ve been getting interested in queues recently: “One of the problems it seems most modern web apps face is the tendency to want to do everything all at once, and all in the same code that responds directly to a user.”
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I think there's a parallel with queued operation and old-school MVC (as in GUIs). I just haven't had the time/attention/will-to-write to make that connection more properly (and maybe it's pedantic anyway ;)
Ian Bicking - 5th July 2008 01:35 - #
Ian:
Please do elaborate; that sounds intriguing.
Joe Grossberg - 5th July 2008 03:18 - #