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Proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web - WebMedia '08

DOI: 10.1145/1666091.1666093

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NeoVictorian computing, with a twist

Journal article published in 2008 by Simon Harper ORCID
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Abstract

Experience in World Wide Web (Web) accessibility has taught us: to think about small bespoke solutions; to tailor interaction and re-quirements to the user and job at hand; to value high data interop-erability; to realise that large enterprise systems, become unman-ageable and unable to change at the speed required by both users and technology; and finally, to value heterogeneity. Indeed, with the advent of Workflows, Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs), Repre-sentational state transfer (RESTful) services, and Cloud Comput-ing we can also see these viewpoints becoming more common in mainstream thought. Here, we use Bernstein's concept of 'NeoVic-torian Computing' as a counterfoil to Andriole's new viewpoint of 21 st century software development. We extrapolate from the Web development model into corporate and enterprise systems and propose an architecture of client based heterogeneous applications each tailored to a specific user, and their job, with highly interop-erable data, controlled by workflows that are transferred with the data itself. We discount the new client–computing fad, as this re-ally means centrally controlled, sometimes unavailable, old style enterprise systems. We suggest that by moving toward user centred agile systems we follow the conceptual, if not the technological, underpinnings of the Web. In this case we realise that Web devel-opers are in a privileged position to shape and push forward this new kind of software architecture and the 'craft' based approaches which will drive it.