Huh... People are judging the web site by the graphics?
(Actually, my impression of the obama care web site was that it wasn't built to handle the load. So it spent a lot of time in failure modes not all that dissimilar from that of a web site hit by a denial of service attack - denial of service attacks mostly are about overloading a site with too much traffic.) Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe that what bit the Obama Care web site. What the user saw and used > (the gui api) could have been easily written by students in a beginning web > design class. The underlying apis were grossly underestimated and not > understood by those in charge. > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Interesting article: >> > >> > Shortened URL: >> > http://goo.gl/mDHbFu >> > >> > Full URL: >> > >> http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/27/the-future-of-coding-is-here-and-threatens-to-wipe-out-everything-in-its-path/?ncid=tcdaily >> >> Seems like a worthwhile sentiment. >> >> Though, of course, it's also missing a few significant points. >> >> Like, APIs have always been that important. And, for most purposes, >> most of them are irrelevant and ignorable. Though which ones are >> irrelevant depends on what you are trying to accomplish. >> >> And *that* brings up a really important thing, which is that APIs by >> themselves are worthless. It's what they let you access that matters. >> So you need to combine development skills with insights into real >> world problems (making stuff, for example, or growing food for another >> example). >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Raul >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
