Comments on: Coding for the unexpected https://onlineaspect.com/2009/08/31/coding-for-the-unexpected/ building stuff on the web with Josh Fraser Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:02:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: grokcore https://onlineaspect.com/2009/08/31/coding-for-the-unexpected/comment-page-1/#comment-708 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:02:01 +0000 https://onlineaspect.com/?p=518#comment-708 You are just going through a learning curve, one that lasts for years.

I think those kinks are just death throws. The old web is dying. The lines are blurring and becoming a landscape.

Webhooks. PubSubs (e.g. pubsubhubbub). ATOM / RSS integration (it is really amazing what you can do with an Atom).

The crude, slow internet is dissolving with it's content scattered everywhere. I see massive content pools to wade through, high speed MemCached servers dishing out indexes & references for it all, all wrapped up nicely in flexible metadata.

Your disenchanted view of dealing with unsanitized input, overflowing storage and hardware failures can all go in the trash if you've got all your data on an Amazon S3 account. Or heck, grab VMWare, install a view servers in a cluster formation and go to school (totally impractical for production, but great for learning).

Crazy stuff coming down the pipes. Cut your teeth on the edge of the net 😉

]]> By: Olafur Waage https://onlineaspect.com/2009/08/31/coding-for-the-unexpected/comment-page-1/#comment-668 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:10:09 +0000 https://onlineaspect.com/?p=518#comment-668 All code is, is an algorithm to some process that works for all possible cases. And what you're seeing there (in most cases you point out) is an algorithm that didn't work for all possible cases.

Which is close to impossible in a very complex program.

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