Chipping the web: November 20th
November 20th, 2009 11:00:30 am pst by 
Sterling Camden
- The Alliance for Code Excellence | CodeOffsets.com
You can buy "Bad Code Offsets" that support various Open Source initiatives.
Yet, their web site is written in ASP.NET.
Tags: opensource programming - Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020
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We live in a world full of newbie PHP developers doing the first thing that pops into their collective heads, with more born every day. What we have here is an ongoing education problem. The real enemy isn't regular expressions (or, for that matter, goto), but ignorance. The only crime being perpetrated is not knowing what the alternatives are.
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Re: The Alliance
That’s hilarious
Quote:”The only crime being perpetrated is not knowing what the alternatives are.”
Then enlighten us!
We can talk all we want about good design and coding practices, but where the rubber meets the road is when a programmer sits down to implement a specific solution. If they don’t take the time to think about the alternatives instead of just Googling for the first answer they can find, then you have the situation to which Jeff refers.
I completely agree with you Sterling. It’s like the web design project I just took on. The client gave me a list of six sites that they liked the layout on and asked me if I could do something similar. The first thing I did was look at the code used by the other sites (I was horrified to find out it used tables). Part of what I really wanted to recreate (because I could easily recreate the tabular layout using divs) was the menu. At first I was going to use the same program that the other designer used (basically googling for the first answer). When that wasn’t viable (horrid crippleware, you can design but not compile the code) I sought out an alternative solution (CSS popup/out menu). After about 2 hours of googling, and going through code examples, I finally found what I was looking for (turns out my HTML editor had a CSS menu creator as part of the program, hehe). It wasn’t easy but in the end I was able to turn out good, compliant code that works in all the CSS capable browsers I was able to test them in. I may not be the absolute greatest web designer but I feel like that what I am able to do, I do well.
Sorry for the ramble.
No problem, Joseph.
BTW, thanks for the Christmas card!
Not a problem. (: You and Chad both have been great friends to me. It’s the least I can do in return. (: