Quick links 13 Feb, 2004
Crikey. Things have been getting Atomic over at Russell Beattie’s site: Russ takes issue with Mark Pilgrim. I can kind of see his point too. This whole Atom thing is just fine as a technical notion. It’s the pathetic pontification and grand-standing going on around it that is pure pants. I hold Atom responsible for the degradation of a great site: diveintomark. It used to be really interesting, with plenty of opinion on all kinds of things. Now? RSS and Atom talk. Yawn.
Moving on, some more quick links:
- The Register: ‘Help! I married a Net porn star’
- java.net: Source control, change tracking, and regular builds
- Chris Toohey: Blog Spam A whitelist / blacklist mechanism for ’blog spam does make sense; it doesn’t have to be a “Domino thing” though — why not leverage possible lists in the future from Movable Type and others?
Here’s to the weekend, and — ahem — a lovely St. Valentine’s day…
To me it's purely voyeuristic fun seeing everyone rip each other to shreds.
At the end of the day, far too many people get a little too caught up in their own sense of self-importance on the web. The percentage of people on this planet whose lives will be materially affected by Atom vs RSS is essentially zero, and this is what many A-listers promoting their technologies and ideas seem to forget.
Sure, we all enjoy our geek thrills and the Atom versus RSS debate is quite interesting and educational, and that is a Good Thing. If some of us end up being better software developers and indirectly make the world a slightly better place (*violin music*) because we write better software, then that too is a Good Thing. But THAT IS IT. Thinking that any of it is really important in the greater scheme of the Universe is a very painful delusion.
Having said that, pass the popcorn… :-)Colin Pretorius#
I'll all for developing something that's more "open"… and it can certainly be done. It's a matter though of then building our solutions around such a thing (ie, Domino adopted RBL technology) - I simply suggested writing the thing in Domino to 1) stick with what the majority of my readership can use immediately and 2) a standard example database from any of us rarely only cover the current subject (ie, Jake puts out an example database covering subject1 and we inadvertedly learn about subjects2-17).
Also… who's to say that we have to be the followers? If we come up with a great solution, we could very easily create a "modularity" to the process and allow even those MT-ers to use it - who cares that it's running on a Domino backend? We have OpenNTF "host" the thing and whammo! Domino's yet again being used for something that it (while it wasn't designed for) does wonderfully!
-ChrisChris Toohey#