Chris Anderson's new book on Free continues to get press. I noted it here when Malcolm Gladwell wrote about it for the New Yorker. This is about the 6th time I've seen it reviewed or referenced in the last month.
The tradeoff of creating more abstraction layers provides, as always, flexibility at the cost of complexity. Often times we resort to inferior workarounds because they seem simpler, when in truth they are just dumbing down the problem. KISS is not a synonym for "half assed".
The wave of open data continues to roll. The National Public Radio API has been out for awhile, but the man responsible is talking next week at OSCON. He gives an
interview
as a preview.
PHP requires that you change your HTML to indicate that an input
value in a form expects multiple values. That means, your HTML
needs to know what your server-side architecture is coded in.
with that extra little [] bracket pair. That's just Wrong. And bad.
My HTML shouldn't care what the server side language is. HTTP is HTTP.
HTML is HTML. It's agnostic. Unless your scripting language is broken.
Like PHP is.
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