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No answers here (although lots of useful suggestions in comments) but this is a succinct description of one of the main problems I face: tag soup
Perhaps when it comes to mixing HTML and server-side code, some form of soup is unavoidable, a necessary evil. The soup can be quite palatable; maybe even delicious. It's certainly possible to write good tag soup and bad tag soup.
But I have to wonder: is there a better way? Is there something beyond RHTML, Views, and Templates? What examples would you point to of web development stacks that avoided degenerating into yet more hazardous, difficult to maintain tag soup? Is there anything truly better on the horizon?
Or is this year's newer, fancier, even-more-delicious iteration of tag soup as good as it ever gets for web development?
Turns out that buying the second server was a good move. And rsync is the greatest command ever.
rsync -avzl -e "ssh -p22" user@example.com:/var/www/ /backup/www
Just ridiculously easy.
Still haven't pulled the trigger on the iPhone [typical - ed.] Didn't really want to stand in line so I'm waiting for things to settle down. Looks like they sold over 1 million in the first weekend. It took them over 2 months to do that with the first one. Battery life is down thanks to the power hungry 3g radio chip, but it's still longer than other 3g phones. Not really a problem for me, but I understand it is a big deal for some people.
Overall I think the new software is a bigger deal than the new phone. The App Store is very well done. Over 10 million downloads already.
Check out this one: Zeptopad. Very nice. (I want to know more about "shake and share", that looks clever.)
Nightmare data center scenario: power out in downtown Vancouver. Lots of hosts are down, as the backup generator at the Harbour Centre building failed after 20 minutes.
domize.com: excellent domain name search tool.
Jacques Chester: "Shared hosting is doomed (and I have the graphs to prove it)"
High-res AT&T 3G coverage map.
Three days and counting...
HTML 5 is so cool I'm sure it will never really get here. Check out this latest proposal: WebSocket, "a full-duplex communications channel that operates over a single socket."
JavaScript:
var conn = new WebSocket("ws://www.example.com/livedemo");
conn.onopen = function(evt) { alert("Conn opened"); }
conn.onread = function(evt) { alert("Read: " + evt.data); }
conn.onclose = function(evt) { alert("Conn closed"); }
conn.send("Hello World")
Nice!Inside baseball web 2.0 smackdown: behold web 2.1 and the server side blink tag. It's funny 'cause it's true. This stuff is hard to scale.
So I don't forget: PHP and jquery upload progress bar. Why the PHP team didn't change the way uploads are handled in PHP 5 is completely beyond me. As a file uploads it gets written to /tmp, but your script which is to handle the file has no way of knowing which file in /tmp is yours. This would be simple to fix. I wonder how many developers started looking at Ruby on Rails just for this one feature? (I know, that would be a crazy reason to switch languages, but I'll bet it happened.) Anyway, seems like third parties have now made it pretty easy to add this to PHP (you used to have patch the source and then recompile.)