"Getting Real" is an agile approach to web application development. This article explains how it can be successfully combined with the flexibility of semantic web technologies.
by Benjamin Nowack
September 23, 2008
he "Getting Real"
approach by Web 2.0 poster child 37signals reverses the usual development process (from model to code to user interface) by going "from brainstorm to user interface sketches to HTML to coding." Principles such as, "Don't write a functional specification," or "Essentials only" can help developers stay focused and thus reduce the time-to-launch.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) supports and accelerates many
code-oriented aspects of Getting Real. For illustration, this article describes how to create dooit, a simple
to-do list manager (a nice type of software that is usually prone to feature creep during the design phase). You can try an online demo and download the source for this application.
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