The explosion you speak of is sites making better use of JavaScript, a movement that took off with the launch of gmail in 2004. Paul Buchheit talks about the t

The explosion you speak of is sites making better use of JavaScript, a movement that took off with the launch of gmail in 2004. Paul Buchheit talks about the thinking and communication that created gmail. He doesn't mention MVC; he talks a lot about rapid prototyping. He shares some of his then-current thinking in the form of a single 600-line source file. Read the post: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communicating-with-code.html http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communicating-with-... EDIT: HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=444615 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=444615