Alex, I think you need to move up the food chain a little.
The root-cause is vendor-driven advocacy directed at content producers which encourages them to produce compelling content using experimental features. Everything else is consequences. If you believe that those consequences are CRAZY, then you must conclude that the root-cause is CRAZY.
Clearly if you want to develop a real web application, you need a router, a templating language, ability to separate out your model, view, and controller, scalability, and much more.
However, at times this is both too much, and yet not enough. I find that I write a lot of scripts that do report generation, execution of shell commands, and the like, and in many cases would like to present a richer output than plain text: things like tables, fonts, and most importantly hypertext links. I’ve been extracting some of the common logic from these scripts out into a library, and recently have started refactoring that library.
Nat Torkington: Don’t wait for the time machine, because we’re never going to invent something that returns you to 1965 when copying was hard and you could treat the customer’s convenience with contempt.
The git vs svn permathread seems to have reignited at the ASF, and I thought I would describe some of my actual experiences with git in the hopes that it will help anchor the discussion.
Knowing that Thunderbird was going to be upgraded in Ubuntu 11.10, I took a look at the one extension I use, and found that it was not compatible. I know I could hack it, but if things went wrong down the line, I would rather understand what I was dealing with. Particularly, as my needs are meager: I simply wanted to create a button that would invoke fetchmail.
Andreas Bovens: we’ve decided to stop throwing draconian XML parsing failed error messages, and instead, attempt to reparse the document automatically as HTML.
Experiences with a clean install of Snow Leopard on a 2008 vintage mac-mini: sleep/wakeup issues, getting suexec working, RVM, installing and uninstalling MySQL, and playing with Mail app.
Sqlite3 3.7.4 doesn’t like Mac OSX 10.5.8. Rails 3.1 doesn’t like sqlite3-ruby -v 1.2.5. Neither Best Buy nor Apple will sell me Snow Leopard; not from their Brick and Mortar stores nor online. Nor is Lion an option as upgrading to Snow Leopard is a prerequisite.
If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know. Meanwhile, I can say this: while every previous version of Agile Web Development had screenshots of Safari on a Mac, the next update will have screenshots of Chrome on Ubuntu.
On Monday, July 27th, 1981 I reported for my first day at work at the IBM Federal System Division offices in Gaithersburg Maryland. Much has changed in those thirty years. While I have no immediate plans to retire, I must say that it feels rather odd to be in a position where I could chose to do so at any time.
Ian Skerrett: Some of those people that oppose the move are promoting ideology about open source software that is just wrong. Luckily I am here to correct them.
Rob Weir: As you have probably heard, Oracle has followed through with their earlier promise to “move OpenOffice.org to a purely community-based open source project.” OpenOffice is moving to Apache. I’d like to offer you my own thoughts on this new opportunity and what it means. I recommend also the insights of my colleagues Ed Brill and Bob Sutor.