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Who Decides?

By Amy Blankenship
May 3, 2009

In my last blog post, I discussed a CSS trick I recently discovered. That post spawned a lot of comments, and at one point in the discussion I stated that I felt that just because a technique is popular and has been put forward by one or more resources as best practice, that it doesn't necessarily make that technique better practice than a new practice I (or any developer really) might come up with. The question was asked, "where do best practices come from?" ...I think any developer, consumer, or citizen has the right to put in the research time to study what current practices are and the reasons for them and put forward alternatives that can be considered for adoption as best practices.

Practice

By Simon St. Laurent
January 1, 2009

My New Year's Resolution for this year is simple: practice. You don't have to achieve (or even aim for) total mastery for the practice to be worthwhile.

Hard Work and Practice in Programming

By Tim O'Reilly
December 20, 2008

At the Program For the Future event commemorating the 40th anniversary of Doug Englebart's "mother of all demos" in 1968, I was privileged to hear an inspired rant by Alan Kay about the unwillingness of people to work hard to learn new skills. I'm quoting from memory, so the lines below are not exact, and there's no way I can...

Best practice XSD: the very thing that makes you rich makes me poor

By Rick Jelliffe
August 15, 2008

I was re-reading NIST's XML Schema Design Quality Test Requirement Documentfrom 2004 recently: it has a great list of various best practices for XSD from different organizations from the lens of five years ago. So would be the set of meta-rules we can extract from these best practice documents?

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By O'Reilly Media
July 10, 2008

Success Factors: What traditional business really needs to know about Web 2.0 — Based on direct experience consulting in the field, and backed by O'Reilly's thought leadership on Web 2.0, this webcast is for the rest of us: executives and professionals working in "traditional" (non-Internet na

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