Monthly Archives: November 2008

Nov 25 2008
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Is web development boring?

by Chris
Programming

I read an article a month or two ago in php|architect magazine that got me thinking. The article is entitled Slot Machines and it’s an editorial by Steph Fox. In the article, Steph talks about electrical engineering before the age of the microchip and how it was an exciting and creative career path. However, after the microchip hit the market it became a “…boring: slot this here, slot that there” profession. Basically the creativity had been replaced with interchangable parts. The article draws the similarity between electrical engineering after the advent of the microchip and web development. It argues that there is little ‘real’ development that needs to be done anymore with all the COTS applications and programming frameworks on the market and it begged the question: is web development boring?

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Nov 24 2008
0

Protagonize: Interactive Fiction Community

by Chris
Misc.

I stumbled across an online community for writers last week called Protagonize. I don’t really notice communities anymore, just because there are so many now a days. But I found Protagonize and was drawn in by one of the stores featured on it’s homepage and now I’m hooked.

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