6 Aug, 2008 | Written by Frank Carver | under Information
One strand of my continuing research is about the design of productised yet customisable web applications. It seems that most corporate web applications are developed as customer-specific projects, which in turn leads both to a very low level of reuse, and to expensive projects with little or no economies of scale.
I’m guessing that one way to cut through this is to build an application in two parts: a core platform providing generic data and services, together with a set of plugins, themes/skins and widgets. Several very successful web applications (such as the WordPress blog I am using to write this) use this model.
- Creating flexible user applications using widget technologies
For years Frank Carver has been paying attention to the strange world of convergent technology. During that time he has discussed and researched broad subject areas, come to some surprising conclusions, produced and distributed digital media, scattered ideas and opinions like sparks from a firework, and above all consulted for businesses both large and small to help develop and deploy successful systems, services, and products in this highly complex arena.
