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“different tools like different subsets, and different vendors change their minds over what the right subset is”
or as I keep saying, the problem isn’t so much that all databinding tools suck, it’s that they all suck differently. Watch this space.
Technorati Tags: databinding, w3c
Hmmm, I hadn’t realised your could “claim” your blog on Bloglines, or yet worked out why you’d do such a thing. Anyway, here goes!
Update: OK, that’s cool, I got to mark my RDF and RSS 1.0 feeds as duplicates of the atom one, and assign a nice picture of my big nose, however it doesn’t seem to be able to add up the number of subscribers, I just lost 30 odd ego-points :-/
This post which has been fermenting for more than 18 months but remains nothing more than a half-baked idea.
Last Christmas Lucy and I snuck off into London to see Alan Bennett’s The History Boys. It’s British to the core, and captures what it was like to for someone of my generation to attend a state school from my part of the world. An excellent cast and universal themes explain why it’s now on Broadway and in advanced production as a feature film.
Dear geeks, may I humbly suggest you take any chance to see this because not only does this explain why your 40+ year old hairy-arsed northern-blogger is how he is*, it also provides a warning for those of us who advocate Test Driven Development..
[minor spoiler:] The story surrounds a group of VI formers and the school’s ambition that as many of them should go to Oxbridge, something no pupil from the school had achieved previously. Rather than providing them with an all-round education, the students are trained to pass the entrance exam itself. The results aren’t exactly as intended, :
Irwin: What happened at Oxford?
Man: Cambridge. It didn’t work out.
Irwin: I think I heard that.
Man: All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I got somewhere, but then I found I had to go on.
In life as well as coding, you may pass all the tests presented, but remain unprepared for production.
*at no point did I get to “enjoy” a ride on my teacher’s motorbike ;-)
Technorati Tags: History Boys, Theatre, Arts, TDD
Webbed Flange, a rusty squared circle, represented my 6,000th photo on flickr. I’m wondering if that’s something to be proud of, or worried about ..
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