WEB: Greenspun's Back! [1005.1998]

Philip Greenspun wrote another book on web design. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but it's all online. Chapter one's called Envisioning a site that won't be featured at suck.com. :)

Jorn Quotes:

As soon as two users ask the same question, you should beef up your site to answer it unattended... Why not go the extra mile and hack the CGI scripts so that the search engine sends you e-mail when a query results in zero matches? Given information about which user queries are failing, you can add content or keywords as appropriate.

My personal theory is that the ascendance of C++ is responsible for the floundering of object databases. Anyone intelligent can quickly write a highly reliable program in Smalltalk or Common Lisp. But the world embraced C++, a language in which almost nobody has ever managed to write a reliable program.