Your Architecture's Agenda

Phil Windley writes...

"Designs are full of defaults--some explicit and most of the implicit.
Programmers don't pay enough attention to defaults. Rail's "convention
over configuration" is a great example of a system that carefully
thought through defaults. 37 Signals calls this concept opinionated
software."

http://www.windley.com/archives/2008/05/whats_your_architectures_agenda.shtml