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It only took a Long Weekend
Here's a fun comment snippet I came across on Slashdot:
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PHP vs. ASP.NET
Here's some quick information from an unbiased, informative article that discusses the differences between PHP and ASP.NET.
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+5, Insightful
I present to you one of the more insightful comments I've seen on Slashdot in a while:
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Planning for the Future
Alex Campbell griped a bit earlier about how much of a complete pain in the butt it is to maintain an overly complex system. Demonstrative/educational reasons aside, it's quite unnecessary to build platform flexibility into a system when the platform has already been decided. Yes, I do realize that punch card based data providers do not support stored procedures, but sometimes it's just easier to code for a SQL-92 database provider than to build an abstract data factory layer that can handle anything, including cuneiform tablets. Anyways, that got me thinking ... do folks in other fields think with the same “what if they change their mind later” mindset ...