The wave of open data continues to roll. The National Public Radio API has been out for awhile, but the man responsible is talking next week at OSCON. He gives an interview as a preview.
an eddy in the bitstream
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
The wave of open data continues to roll. The National Public Radio API has been out for awhile, but the man responsible is talking next week at OSCON. He gives an interview as a preview.
Just stumbled across this talk today.
Dumb. And bad.
PHP requires that you change your HTML to indicate that an input value in a form expects multiple values. That means, your HTML needs to know what your server-side architecture is coded in.
Dumb. And bad.
Example:
<input name="foo" value="123" /> <input name="foo" value="456" />
That code above won’t work in a POST to a .php script because one of the values for ‘foo’ will be dropped. Instead, you have to code your html like:
<input name="foo[]" value="123" /> <input name="foo[]" value="456" />
with that extra little [] bracket pair. That’s just Wrong. And bad. My HTML shouldn’t care what the server side language is. HTTP is HTTP. HTML is HTML. It’s agnostic. Unless your scripting language is broken. Like PHP is.
and it is my own fault. i have tripped on my dissatisfaction, chronic and malignant.
That’s free as in beer. Malcolm Gladwell has a review in this week’s New Yorker of Chris Anderson’s new book.
Given my new job, this quote from Anderson seems apt:
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