RasterWeb!A vote for Asa is a vote for Mozilla!
Kick those IE candidates to the curb!
What platform will he be running on? Many platforms! And most importantly the Mozilla platform!
(Need more info? Check out this interview with Asa to find out where he stands.)
Go read Vinny Carpenter’s Blog. Vinny and I used to work together years ago, and he taught me a lot about Linux, Perl, and Apache… For that I owe him all sorts of thanks… He’s a Java geek now, so if you’re into that Java thing, go see what he has to say.
Them: Is there a calendar around here?
Me: Sure, just type ‘cal’ at a unix prompt.
Them: I don’t have unix.
Me: Get it.
In case anyone is keeping track of this stuff, we started this weblog 6 years ago. This is well before the term ‘weblog’ existed. So can it really be called a weblog? I mean, I guess we were doing this stuff before we had a name for it, or we were doing it, not knowing what it would be called. Or something like that.
Anyway, we’re still not using Blogger, or Movable Type, and now were not using TypePad either. At least to maintain this site. Oh, no Radio either, though we once used Frontier, and once used Pike, actually we used Radio too for a short time I think. Anyway, now we used a hacked up collection of perl scripts and such, and as soon as a system comes along that meets our requirements, we’ll consider switching.
Oh, as for the 6, since starting this here ‘weblog’ we’ve moved three times, had a second child, changed jobs once, and probably written a zillion lines of code…
Damn you Extensis…
Your PortWeb application produces invalid HTML.
Now look, it’s bad enough the application is crippled and limited in how it operates, and requires hackish workarounds to get what you want, but when someone comes along who just wants to create a simple web front-end to their Portfolio database, and thinks PortWeb will do the trick and wants to do so with valid HTML, well, they are out of luck. Stuck with another case of “it validates, except where some stupid application inserts invalid code” syndrome.
It’s not the end of the world, it’s not ever disastrous, it just annoying. It’s nothing that couldn’t be fixed with a templating system that was perhaps just a little bit smarter, or more flexible.
I’m sure Extensis isn’t the only guilty party when it comes to producing crappy code you can’t fix, they’re just the most recent I’ve had to deal with. (Check back next week though…)