Mindful Musings

Here is a link to Matt’s post about “Code is Food“.
I absolutely adore the “one more won’t break the web” analogy coming from some of the people who have left comments on that post! That embodies the difference between people willing to get off their asses to make a difference and people trying to justify the problem and ignoring the issue at hand. Sweeping the problem under the rug because all the cool kids are doing it” is not an acceptable answer for a programmer, technologist and/or a web solution developer.
This post represents Matt’s opinion. He believes in clean, compliant code and works dilligently towards promoting the cleanliness of code structure and most of his work is representative of the same. My refute to the people against Matt’s views is that, LockerGnome has a large viewership and should be on the forefront of web technology, embracing rather than deprecating the nuances of proper web coding procedures.
There were some other really interesting comments on that post, some coming from people that I had a fair amount of respect for in the past. Some wanted to rewrite WordPress in Java (I say, go for it!). Others expressed their derision of WordPress and PHP. However, the most interesting comments are the ones from people actually standing up for LockerGnome and the lack of web standards in the new design.

All of that having been said, I will blushingly add that my own code on this blog is not standards compliant. I have no interest in staying up late nights to make it standards compliant. If it happens, it will happen in its own sweet time. However, I also do not run a website that is considered to be one of the fore runners of computing technology, nor am I that famous or important.
I know … excuses, excuses … maybe once this thesis is done.