Templating Systems
I've spent a lot of time working in template based systems. At BlackStar, Lastminute, Kasei and now for myself with Rails. Somebody asked me this morning to explain how I see templating, or MVC, systems from the designers point of view, here's my analogue.
Imagine a large warehouse full of goods, all sorts of everything in nice brown boxes. Those goods have been created by the program or Controller (scripts) from raw materials provided by the Model (data source). The Views (templates) are able to scoot around this warehouse, little designer types on souped up forklift trucks with gnarly flames painted down the side, they take the boxes and load them onto the waiting delivery trucks (the browser!) in the order and manner they see fit. And that's it, nice and simple.
(As an aside, the designer types on their forklifts don't like having to lift a freezer and a washing machine just to get at a toaster. It makes them mad.)
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