definition of microformat

A microformat is a specific collection of names, values, and accompanying structure defined through rigorous market research intended to consider pervasive use of semantic html that increases data fidelity in HTML-borne data widely distributed on the web. Microformats are more than one of these, eg: “hcard and hcal are microformats.”
This is my definition for microformat. [...]

toolbox: webdev unicorns: intro (0/4)

After years of using php for web development, my needs have changed, and I’ve decided to use python. I’ve been struggling to refill my toolbox with tools that suit my needs, and this post is the intro to a series of posts to capture my current findings in this search. There are five parts:

intro [...]

toolbox: webdev unicorns: templates (1/4)

Templating is an important way for multi-disciplined teams to work together on software projects. In addition, they serve as an important component for making applications loosely coupled and more easily understood.
Templating
Kid, the templating language isn’t working out for me very well. There are some basic things that I don’t understand how to do, [...]

toolbox: webdev unicorns: servers (2/4)

Servers
This is kind of a big topic because several components are so interconnected.
Exposing Code to the Web
I like cherrypy’s approach of navigating an object hierarchy slightly better than django’s approach of evaluating a list of regular expressions. The problem, of course, is how to deal with URIs that are illegal python symbols, such as [...]

toolbox: webdev unicorns: components (3/4)

The web is a big place, and being a part of it increases the value of both the network your application interacts with and your application. This creates a need to interoperate with other applications on the web, the fulfillment of which actually helps create a better end-user experience. What this boils down [...]

toolbox: webdev unicorns: conclusions (4/4)

Amid all the talk of web stacks, I’d like to take a step back to the Unix philosophy: do one small thing, do it well, make it pipeable and interoperable. I have a real need for separate, easily-understood coponents that are interoperable. They also need to perform well. Modern applications are getting [...]