Jeff "Coding Horror" Atwood has fingered a particular sore spot for me in Web Development as Tag Soup:
"Tag soup" is his name for the ~~spaghetti~~perfectly valid stuff that inevitably occurs in server-side, tag-based languages. A typically ~~hideous~~perfectly valid example he shows is:
<h1>Archive for {{ year }}</h1 …Along the lines of my recent poll on practices during project initialization, here's a poll on some common practices used during software development construction. Which of these have you found to be important for success? What have I missed?
more ...ORA would have us believe that developer interest in the iPhone lags behind developer interest in Android or Symbian. I am skeptical
(Via O'Reilly Radar.)
more ...What's especially amusing about recovery of Apple I's BASIC is that it was done via an MP3 file, which, as you know, is a lossy compression scheme.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
more ...I have created a short poll at Zoho on practices that can be done very early in a project's lifecycle, before a vision is really established. What do you think? What did I miss?
more ...This is from MarsEdit. Do I have to add markup tags manually?
It appears that I have to add markup manually
more ...I've been busier than some metaphorical thing in some metaphorical place where things are really busy.
Here are some recent articles I've written:
Drag .Net -- Home Security Automation
\<a href="http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx%3fArticleID%3d32144"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ozzie's 'Internet Tidal Wave' Leaves A …
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more ...The July 08 (Vol. 30, #7) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence has an incredible paper by Raykar, Duraiswami, and Krishnapuram. A Fast Algorithm for Learning a Ranking Function from Large-Scale Data Sets appears to be a game-changer for an incredibly important problem in machine learning. Basically, they …
more ...CodeGear, the company semi-spun off from Borland's languages division, has been acquired by Embarcadero, the company best known for enterprise-y DB tools such as ER/studio.
The half-measure of announcing the division's sale and then holding on to it was always ugly and even though Embarcadero is probably not the …
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