Welcome to Infinite Stratos: Cecilia Alcott

LPKIA Information System The Next Generation

  • Infinite as in to support infinite changes
  • Stratos as now we live in the cloud computing era

System Philosophy

  • No news is good news
  • Do one thing and do it well
  • Don't repeat yourself
  • Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
  • Don't reinvent the wheel
  • Follow the standard
  • Convention over configuration
  • With freedom comes responsibility
  • Use flat text file
  • Save data in plain string
  • Least surprise
  • Premature optimization is the root of all evil

Programming Philosophy

  • Beautiful is better than ugly
  • Explicit is better than implicit
  • Simple is better than complex
  • Complex is better than complicated
  • Flat is better than nested
  • Sparse is better than dense
  • Readability counts
  • Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
  • Although practicality beats purity
  • Errors should never pass silently
  • Unless explicitly silenced
  • In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess
  • There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it
  • Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch
  • Now is better than never
  • Although never is often better than *right* now
  • If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea
  • If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea

The Ten Commandments

  1. English is compulsory
  2. Lines are never more than 80 characters wide
  3. Spaces after commas (green, eggs, and, ham) and around operators (i = i + 1)
  4. Indentation is four spaces per level, 8 level for continuation
  5. Constants must be in BLOCK_CAPITAL_WITH_UNDERSCORE
  6. Class names must be in CamelCase
  7. Variables, methods and functions must be in camelCaseWithFirstLower
  8. Protected module level variable must be _camelCaseWithFirstUnderScore
  9. Private module level variable must be __camelCaseWithFirstDoubleUnderScore
  10. Use i, j, k and so on for temporary and disposable variable

Prime Directive

  • Go Public
  • Gone Google
  • Email Oriented
  • Browser Based
  • Cloud Computing
  • Mobile Computing
  • Say no to Software Piracy
  • Open API Using Restful with JSON

Quotes

  • John Gall, from Systemantics, as quoted in Chapter 1. Government As a Platform
    A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over beginning with a working simple system