http://www.codeirony.com An Ironic Look at the State of the Art by Christopher Myers and Justin Davis Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:10:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Social Network If you haven't been asleep for the past 5 years, you've probably noticed the rise of the "Social Networking" website. These oddly popular networks have achieved an impressive amount of influence across the web. Do you ever just find yourself lamenting that there are 24 hours in the ... http://www.codeirony.com/?p=22 This week, we're here to put the kibosh on a movement that's destroying very core of our hitherto dysfunctional programming community. We're out to stop the movement towards smaller, sanely-structured, compact, and readable code. It's just too short and quick. More is more, people! Really... despite ... http://www.codeirony.com/?p=19 In the past 3 years, blogs have popped up faster than Starbucks locations, and we want to be the first to say: "Me too!" Ok, maybe we're not the first to be the second, but that's not going to stop us from cramming the world's already-full blog hole ... http://www.codeirony.com/?p=13 Since web frameworks seem to be the only thing people are doing in Python these days, templating languages have become increasingly important. The problem that we at Code Irony keep running into is that they're just not fast enough. How slow are they? We ran some profiling across one ... http://www.codeirony.com/?p=9 Sure, semantic HTML and pure CSS layout are all the rage, but we at Code Irony can't help but notice that somewhere along the way, the table element became a persona non grata. We find that there are some occasions where using a table can mean a particular layout ... http://www.codeirony.com/?p=6