5 entries tagged
microsoft
After a hiatus of a couple of years, here is a new essay
about web development. I’m afraid this time the
experience I am drawing on is
negative rather than positive:
Just say No to webclasses. OK, I admit
this is something
of an obscure topic for a rant—you probably will never
have heard of this particular web-application framework before
today. But it is sadly occuplying all to much of my
working life these days... :-(
I forgot one of the biggest reasons why the webclasses framework should not be used
for collaborative web development: it does its best to
prevent you from using a source-code control system to
co-ordinate your developers’ changes!
There is some controversy over the proposal by the Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 team to support a new header X-UA-Compatible in IE8. Leaving aside the argument as to whether this header should exist at all, there is the question of whether anyone at Microsoft has read RFC 2616 (the HTTP 1.1 specification) and spent as much as five minutes considering how to make their header fit in to the established conventions.
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It is reported that Steve Ballmer said, on the subject of whether Windows 7 will succeed where Windows Vista has failed, ‘I am optimistic, but the proof will be in the pudding.’ This is strange, because ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’ is one of the rare proverbial phrases that actually makes sense without gloss from a scholar of Semi-Early Modern English. (That said, it makes more sense if you know that ‘proof’ used to be used to mean ‘test’.)
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WAMP is a perverted forward-backronym from LAMP, for people who want to do web development, but
have some overriding reason to use Microsoft Windows (generally corporate IT
policy). To test a web site on Windows, I have a VirtualBox instance set
up for my by ievms, and naturally I need to copy files on to it. Which is
a problem, because Windows is terrible at that sort of complicated system
administration.
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