Reinvent The Wheel (But Make It Square)
I’m way behind in reading the news in my new favourite tool, Akregator, a RSS feed reader. As I plowed through the list of 400+ unread articles I ran into a brilliant (read: me being sarcastic) article on making your web application more efficient by loading common lists at start-up.
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on the author. But then again, the article is 95% code listing and only 5% actual text discussing why you should do this and things to consider when implementing it. Is it just me or does the gist of the article seem pretty much common sense for even the most junior developers? Perhaps I just expect more out of “Lead Developer” and an article labeled as “Intermediate”. And why is it that none of the potential complications are discussed? The author really could have shined had he mentioned that you will run into issues if the list values ever need to change or looked at caching data that is far more expensive to retrieve.
Of course, as I think more about this, I’m not sure which is worse: that the article was written in the first place or that Slashdot included it as a story.
Fri, 06 May 2005 01:10 Posted in Programming
