Simple Interfaces and Micro MVCs
Note: This article was originally published at phly, boy, phly
on 22 December 2010.
My job is great: I get to play with technology and code most days. My job is also hard: how does one balance both functionality and usability in programming interfaces?
I've been working, with Ralph Schindler, on a set of proposals around the Zend Framework 2.0 MVC layer, specifically the "C", or "Controller" portion of the triad. There are a ton of requirements we're trying to juggle, from making the code approachable to newcomers all the way to making the code as extensible as possible for the radical performance tuning developers out there.
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