i_like_robots

I've had this issue too with some of my old, Open Source jQuery plugins and even keeping the scripts separated (into the document head and at the end of the body) and commented didn't seem to work. Developers looking for the cheap and easy copy and paste I guess don't recognize the difference. Fortunately GA supports simple filtering to mitigate it.

My last phone came re-skinned and with default apps replaced by branded, pretty poor carrier specific versions. After a few months some of these apps stopped working and because they ran in the background I was inundated with failure notifications for processes I didn't want and could not stop. It's madness for a mobile phone operator to apply their control so uselessly.

Fortunately being a nerd has its benefits and I installed Cyanogen to avoid the horror, but I can't see how the non-geek user would be able to sidestep the bloat and bugs. The process for rooting and wiping the phone was extremely long. If in future there is the possibility that the engineers of such mods could create a one-click route there would be many more happy users.

I'd also rather download and open in Sumatra but this is a handy feature I wasn't aware of. Opening the link in a new tab will not force the download (Chrome) unlike changing headers and masquerading the file as an application.

This is fantastic, do you plan on extending perhaps with a nuclear-submarine style master key for production deployments?

Cool, I had a similar go a while back http://jsfiddle.net/i_like_robots/qrXyE/

Hans Rosling made an inspiring case for the washing machine being the greatest product of the industrial revolution in his Ted Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_...

Much better, it's obvious in hindsight. Now if you could work some magic on those horrible range inputs…

Developers are always going to combine approaches to what best suits them. Using abstract, extendable naming conventions and abstracting out each module/widget into separate files organised into folders for compilation via LESS or SASS is an ideal combination for me. I think every front-ender needs to pick and choose ideas from multiple methodologies, otherwise there will always be issues with maintainability when building large sites.

More important than any one methodology is consistency and documentation, no one wants to pick up a project with 'genius' abbreviated class names without some example markup!