found drama

• The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks
  At caines.ca/blog. Still digesting this one (and its B- comment thread). Short version of immediate gut response: aspects of MVC are bogus (e.g., some of the "magic", implementation details that throw "wrong" HTTP responses [if you want to be that pedantic]), but it seems to me like it solves some real problems as well. It probably helps to point out that I'm skeptical of backbone.js, and don't agree that "there's no need for templating on the serverside".
  (tagged: architecture mvc )
• About normalize.css
  By Nicolas Gallagher (@necolas) and Jon Neal (@jon_neal). An alternative to CSS resets. Or, as I'm currently thinking of it: the reset that doesn't wipe out your UL's bullets.
  (tagged: Jon Neal Nicolas Gallagher Normalize.css CSS )
• The Death Star Is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System
  Kevin Drum, at Mother Jones:

  In other words, not only is the Death Star affordable, it's not even a big deal.

  (tagged: Star Wars )
• Nicholas Carr: Why publishers should give away ebooks

  Buy the atoms, get the bits free.

  (tagged: publishing Nicholas Carr ebooks books )
• Cogs Bad
  Great post by William Edwards. (Pretty good comment thread, too.)

  The latest in a series of links to developers that are insisting on what I can only think to boil down as: SANITY THROUGH SIMPLICITY.

  (tagged: dev essay )
• The Hacker Shelf

  Community-curated collection of free books for the intellectually curious.

  My to-read shelf just exploded.

  (tagged: programming )

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