posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

I’m amazed by the amount of spam that I receive that just doesn’t make sense.  Okay, I shouldn’t be amazed by that, but here’s a good example:  I have a couple web sites, one for myself and one for one of my books, JavaScript Step by Step.  On the JavaScript Step by Step web site there’s a contact form for readers to let me know about errata and other such niceties. It seems as though [...Read more...]

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I’m struck by the number of times that people make the wrong decisions when it comes to application development as it relates to the ultimate goal.  The ultimate goal of application development is to support the business, so that the business can leverage that application to streamline processes, beat a competitor, or whatever the business need.  To that end, it seems worthwhile to deliver the best application possible. A competing approach says that the application [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

I’m writing a review for a book and while rereading some of the paragraphs I noticed that I’m having one of those wordy writing days; one of those days where I write several words to express one thought when one or two words would do.  A symptom of such a malady is the use of semi-colons (oops, already used one in this post).   I wonder as to the source of this wordiness.  It may [...Read more...]