RealBASIC

How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language

June 27th, 2007  |  Published in AppleScript, Code Development, Developer, JAVA, JavaScript/AJAX, PHP, RealBASIC, Unix

How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language:

fullduplex.org » How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from one another) sometimes makes it difficult to remember what language you’re currently using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers who [...]

Oh man so true so true

(Via Mind-NOX.)

Error Message from hell maybe

March 29th, 2007  |  Published in Code Development, RealBASIC

Now that's an error

The virtues of XML-RPC

November 30th, 2004  |  Published in Code Development, RealBASIC

The virtues of XML-RPC:

It’s way too late to convince the folks working on the Atom weblog editing API that XML-RPC is good. (I argued in favor of XML-RPC—months ago? A year ago? And lost.)

But now and again I feel the need to explain why XML-RPC is good, since the issue will come up in other contexts. Even if we use other things, it’s worth remembering the virtues of XML-RPC, since nothing else comes close yet in terms of both ease-of-use and generality.

This is a great summary of why I love xml-rpc and made the initial set of RealBASIC XML-RPC Classes for RealBASIC and have spent a bit of time updating them for RB 5.5.x and adding some unit tests. (Via inessential.com.)