Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Tim Bray On PHP

"Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML" Ouch. Tim certainly has an opinion here. I question where this has anything to do with PHP. One could certainly create the same kind of pasta using JSP and is the way many ASP sites look inside. I suggest the difference is not the language, but the focus of the developer.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Dan Bricklin's wikiCalc

Dan was the original author of VisiCalc. He is at it again with wikicalc. An online spreadsheet. I like the idea, the alpha code is somewhat functional, but needs polish. Great work Dan.
Software Garden Products: wikiCalc Program: "The wikiCalc program is a web authoring tool for pages that include data that is more than just unformatted prose. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and data organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet. "