Nothing to see here people, move along…
Interesting post on code rewriting by the NowJS team. One point of view I have always heard is that a rewrite is amount to admitting technical bankruptcy; even Joel says don’t do it. But the most compelling argument for it is this: Sunk costs and egos get in the the way of good development.
Our job as developers is to provide the best library so that you can write high-performance realtime web applications easily. We could have defended our code just because we worked hard on it for months. But accepting the large upfront cost of a rewrite meant that we would save on development time in the future and also provide a better product to our users.
via Why We Threw out All Our Code (And Why You Should Too) – NowJS Blog.
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Because sometimes you just want to take the train…AMTRAK FROM LOS ANGELES TO PORTLAND on Vimeo.
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I just imported sixty posts from Blogger to this blog. I’m not on a quest to keep the PageRank, but did want to consolidate things considerably. This link was also helpful in figuring out a thing or two with domain registration.
One thing: all the tags became their own Categories in WordPress, so I had to delete them all. So I’ll have to re-categorize these posts over time.
How to Switch from Blogger to WordPress Without Losing Google PageRank or Search Traffic.
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Marfa, TX and the rest of west Texas video from the highly entertaining Phoot Camp Blog.
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Seen at the local beer pub patio; a kiddie table.
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