Values

Born with the vision of being light & easy—for website creators, and for its developer—Excelsis' development has been guided by certain values, principles, and patterns.  Can you learn our zen from a page?  No.  But if you find anything here that resonates with you, run with it; and may it serve you well.

Project Methodology

• Agile (values, principles)

Project Values

• Individuals & Interactions over processes & tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to Change over following a plan

Development Values

• Ubuntu be human with each other
• Basic is better
• Roots matter do it deep
• Stay nimble Stay light
• Languages over tools
• Accessibile: progressive enhancement
• Honor derives from excellence, not award
• Harmony i.e. resonance over dissonance
• Natural over synthetics
• Simplicity do the 80 omit the 20
• Unsealed let drivers pop the hood
• Economy reuse metaphors & abstractions over and over again
• Integrity be one; internally consistent and integrated
• Inventive don't fear invented here

Software Architecture Principles

• DRY
• MVC
• Tools, not policy i.e. maintain division of style and behavior from structure
• SOLID: (podcast, posters, paper

Principles of Software Development

• Separation of Concerns
• Abstraction & Information Hiding
• Modularity
• Iterative & Incremental Delivery
• Decentralization
• Heterogeneity

Inspirations

• Legos
• Pallets