Andrew :
Don't Repeat Yourself, or DRY, is a software development principle aimed at speeding development efforts and reducing repetition in code bases. The great part about DRY is that in addition to getting work done quicker, it makes maintaining code much easier: if blocks of code that perform like actions across a site, or across multiple sites, is in fact the same code, making changes and adding features in one place results in those changes being quickly made in all places. Even better? Drupal makes enforcing DRY concepts incredibly easy in many different ways.
Posted 12/31/2009 - 12:35
Andrew :
Drupal blocks bumming you out lately? Tired of looking at a huge list of blocks, just trying, in vain, to organize your site's components?
Posted 10/12/2009 - 16:16
Andrew :
Steve Gillmor, of the TechCrunch IT blog, advocates the demise of RSS and the rise of Social Media in it's place. But is this smart, and does it make sense?
Posted 05/14/2009 - 16:38
Andrew :
Tagging is one of the most widely-implemented functions in all of web software. It's truly ubiquitous in its ability to solve data linking issues, and knows little boundaries in the type of data it's linking. You see it used in news sites to denote commonality across the subject of articles, and you see it in commercial sites like Amazon to lump together products into different areas. In fact, it's quite difficult to imagine situations where tagging wouldn't make sense.
Posted 02/19/2009 - 18:13
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Andrew :
The idea of a "Mashup" is just one of those ubiquitous terms that invariably gets tossed around all the time when talking about the Web 2.0 movement. But what exactly defines a Mashup? And is it all fluff or can it provide not meaningful value in my site?
Posted 01/12/2009 - 18:49
Andrew :
Semantic Web, a specification born in the 1980s, has had a tumultuous history, to say the least. Lately, it has been undergoing a renaissance period, with great renewed interest and large internet voices beginning to herald the technology. The National Institute of Health, MIT, and Yahoo are all among a growing industry push for Semantic Web. Given the publicity surrounding Semantic Web, I thought I would take a moment to delve into why you, too, should be sitting with ears perked for news on Semantic Web.
Posted 10/21/2008 - 13:42
