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What book?

I've been meaning to read Web Design for Developers myself and was going to recommend it as well. I've heard good things.

It is nice to finally see microformats being used for something so mainstream.

Someone needs to update Nigeria's Wikipedia page to list spam as its major export.

Wouldn't this already be an issue with the Public folder?

Actually, I got the impression that no public link was available at all unless you chose to create it.

Watching entire shows while standing up, holding an antenna: priceless. (Didn't feel like coming up with the first part of the cliche)

Do what I did, find a CPA that you can talk to in person. They can tell you what your options are and lay things out for you step by step. Even file the paperwork for you to get incorporated. Don't try to figure it all out on your own. The money you will save on taxes will more than make up for the cost of going the CPA route.

I think it is advocating something concrete: Drop the separate routing layer. Then it gives two concrete examples of how to handle urls: Sinatra-style and HTTP-style methods in the controller. I think the biggest problem in the article is its use of an ugly url in the examples.

I actually like the HTTP-style method approach. You mention pushback to prevent people from creating mega-controllers, and I think this takes it even a step further. It really ties the controller to the resource. As mentioned in the article, this is already how the methods are called in the tests.

I attended (but sadly, never graduated) the University of Central Florida in the US as a Computer Engineering major and the courses were as you described: Engineering + Math + Computer Science.

Thanks. You saved me the trouble of reading it.

I figured it out. They hate wikipedia because it's socialist! Or maybe communist.

You missed the joke.

If it wasn't for his boosterism, we'd probably still be writing HTML for specific browsers and versions.

If you strap it to your back, not strap yourself into it. In other words, you can walk around with it.

I never buy video with DRM, but I love Netflix's streaming service. I think the DRM backlash is getting so rabid that people are blinded to an actual, legitimate use for it, which I think in Netflix's case it is.

You have every right to pull out of Facebook if you disagree with what they're doing, but thinking it has to conform to what your vision of what the web's "basic paradigm" is is just silly. Blogging and commenting changed things before this social stuff took it further. The web is always changing.

Saying people need to learn about the origins of the web before they can use it is arrogant and I don't see how it could affect how anyone views what's happening with this Facebook stuff.

Regardless though, "social by default" is rhetoric. When you launch a site Facebook isn't going to be able to hijack it and start inserting social features without your permission.

In general, I think the concerns are overblown. Facebook is basically the Twitter that my family uses, and that's why I use it.

Right. And the whole point of the article is that using any modern editor, you can easily scan to find an id or class without resorting to one-liners, which do make the attributes harder to read/write/debug/diff.

It was insane.

That is essentially what this article is saying. It just gives a couple concrete examples of how to do this. I think the title of the article does it a disservice.

If there is no notice you can assume it is copyrighted. Because unless explicitly stated otherwise, it is.

That was neat. I tried to do it recursively. Doesn't seem to work, unfortunately.

I think the question is not whether we will be swayed to develop for a particular browser, but rather (as a commmenter stated earlier) it will end the trend of developing "in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari first, then switch to IE 7,8,9,... to "see how broken it is"

Hopefully it will.

I think it's interesting that an article about the good parts of IE 9 still triggers complaints about IE 6. It really was that awful.

You wouldn't be reading the source to find out, but if there was ever a legal dispute, someone probably would be. And in such a case it would be nice to having something as unambiguous as a disclosure tag.

But I do agree it seems a little too specific.

I love that you included the ability to make your own.

It's a huge deal for people with friends and family who aren't as tech-savvy and use MMS without even thinking, but go cross-eyed when you try to suggest emailing it from your phone.

Nice work, Tim!