The sample chapter of his book called “The Old New Thing” (named after his weblog) makes for great reading on a lazy saturday afternoon! :-)

For a long time now, I read the excellent thedailywtf.com WorseThanFailure and most of the entries are funny, some contain interesting lessons and some are horrifying. But this one’s really great, so I want to reproduce it here:

What, Me Layer?

In these days of Web 2.0, the line between outdated (and therefore obsolete) and retro (and therefore cool again) can get pretty blurred. Desktop Applications: outdated (unless they’re HTML-based or made by Google). Client/Server: retro (no green-screens please!). Tiered Design: retro (but only if at least two tiers are AJAX/JavaScript-based).

See what I mean? It’s hard to keep up. Greg Ward’s predecessors must have gotten pretty confused along the way as well. Following is a single line from their Web 2.0-based medical application.

    public class Patient extends JavascriptStringBuilder

And yes, “Patient” means exactly what you think it does. As does “Javascript.”

Original link: What, Me Layer?

Time sure flies. My last post seems like yesterday, but somehow I missed a month inbetween :-/. However, interesting stuff is happening everywhere:

Link time

• The BBC reports: FBI tries to fight zombie hordes. It finally happened, the Umbrella corporation messed up big time! (I should have known better, but I really thought of the walking dead, in a shopping mall preferably, first).

• Safari for Windows, now I don’t need to buy a MacBook to test our websites. Somehow that hurts a little bit inside :-(

• I don’t know about you, but somehow this site is disturbing: OMG!!1!

Maps

A couple of interesting maps came my way recently

• Here’s a map of the US with the states’ names replaced by countries with roughly the same GDP: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs (via the excellent Freakonomics blog)

• … and here’s one that shows the US’ GPA compared to China, Japan and Germany (scroll down a bit): GDP maps

Teh funnies

• blabbermouth / lesbians :-)