{"id":24,"date":"2006-04-11T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2006\/04\/11\/the-development-abstraction-layer\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T05:20:06","slug":"the-development-abstraction-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2006\/04\/11\/the-development-abstraction-layer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Development Abstraction Layer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\">Joel on Software<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A young man comes to town. He is reasonably good looking, has a<br \/>\nlittle money in his pocket. He finds it easy to talk to women.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t speak much about his past, but it is clear that he spent<br \/>\na lot of time in a soulless big company.<\/p>\n<p>He is naturally friendly and outgoing, and quietly confident without<br \/>\nbeing arrogant. So he finds it easy to pick up small gigs from the<br \/>\njob board at the local Programmer&#8217;s Cafe. But he rapidly loses interest<\/p>\n<p>in insurance database projects, vanity web pages for housewives, and<br \/>\nfinancial calculation engines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/DevelopmentAbstraction.html\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Joel on Software: A young man comes to town. He is reasonably good looking, has a little money in his pocket. He finds it easy to talk to women. He doesn&#8217;t speak much about his past, but it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2006\/04\/11\/the-development-abstraction-layer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1061,1423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-fos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}