{"id":521,"date":"2006-04-11T00:08:42","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T00:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2016-12-12T05:31:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T05:31:44","slug":"the-development-abstraction-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2006\/04\/11\/the-development-abstraction-layer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Development Abstraction Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t speak much about his past, but it is clear that he spent a lot of time in a soulless big company.<\/p>\n<p>He is naturally friendly and outgoing, and quietly confident without being arrogant. So he finds it easy to pick up small gigs from the job board at the local Programmer&#8217;s Cafe. But he rapidly loses interest in insurance database projects, vanity web pages for housewives, and financial calculation engines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/DevelopmentAbstraction.html\">The Development Abstraction Layer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2006\/04\/11\/the-development-abstraction-layer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Development Abstraction Layer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-8p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}