...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes. — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
“If you crank the pedantry and purism up, the Web is about URIs and REST. If you crank the controversy down, the Web is… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now. — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for,… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML,… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days. — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
