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[Norman ONeil]

Well put.

I just liked the idea of using the expression fancypants :-) I think  
it should be used more often.

Norman



On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Mitch Pirtle wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Norman ONeil <norman at enorm2.com>  
> wrote:
>> fancypants?
>
> Ok, I'm going to get beat up for saying it, but I do feel strongly  
> about this.
>
> <rant>
>
> Last year in the Netherlands I dedicated a series of slides on a topic
> that has me gritting my teeth: Developer Vanity.
>
> Look, just because you know how to abstract something out into a
> helper and then dynamically call methods based on the actions of the
> method names called in the parent, doesn't mean you need to do it. And
> you certainly don't need to make the rest of us, who predominately
> have tight deadlines, have to live in the same fancypants world.
>
> I once used Oracle to store java source in the rows, and then ran a
> query that randomly selected a few rows, concatenated the java source,
> compiled and executed it all in the database space. Was an
> interesting, if not kinky experience. Now, what was the practical
> outcome? There WASN'T one. Zilch. It was an academic exercise with
> absolutely zero practical value. And most importantly I had the
> restraint to know that it was a pointless capability with a severely
> limited application, and never tried to bring it out of the realm of
> exercise into the world of execution.
>
> I just wished other developers could demonstrate the same restraint.
> There is a LOT of code out there that quite simply does not need to
> be. Adds bloat, complexity, and generally diminishes the value of
> everyone's hard work.
>
> </rant>
>
> With that said, I was wrong about $live_site. I was under extreme
> pressure to deliver a major site when they removed that feature
> (before the 1.5 framework was final), looks like it made it back into
> the framework in just a slightly different place...
>
> You CAN still enforce hostnames by using the JURI class on the  
> front end:
>
> http://api.joomla.org/Joomla-Framework/Environment/JURI.html#base
>
> When looking at the source code, it's right there on line 209 of the
> base() method. Pulls the value of $live_site from JConfig. Woo-hoo!
>
> -- Mitch
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