TPTOTA- August 14, 2006 (Warning: Happy tale that rapidly turns into a demented language-war rant.) Based on recent experience doing more extended web dev work than I have for a while, I propose the acronym TPTOTA (pronounced tip-toe-ta), which stands for They've Probably Thought Of That Already. It is a virtuous consequence of decent API design by those who are actually using their API in plenty of everyday practical work, and extend their API design to solve regularly-encountered problems without compromising the...http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000253.html |