Introduction to MVC Software development is not a new idea. Ada Lovelace is said to have written the first computer program in the mid-nineteenth century for the Analytical Engine, the first mechanical computer prototyped by Charles Babbage. Much time has passed since then, and software development has grown into what is arguably one of the largest contributors to the development of our species. Designing good software is hard. It involves taking into consideration all aspects of the application you need to build, and is complicated further by the need to be specific enough to your current requirements to get the job done, while being generic enough to address future problems. Many experienced developers have had these problems and, over time, common patterns have emerged that assist in solving them. Christopher Alexander, a structural architect, first described patterns in such a way that they can be applied to software development. He said, “Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.” He might have been talking about houses or cities, but his words capture the essence of what we intend to do when considering how we can build a solid, secure, and reusable framework for web applications.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:51:31 +0000
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