Abstraction… it’s so much fun.
It's time I shared my experience of writing Micronatia's data model (well, this blog has got to have something in it).
It's time I shared my experience of writing Micronatia's data model (well, this blog has got to have something in it).
It's horrible. Not because of the way it's not really a complete standard, but more because of the fact users get so much input into it and can screw things up so well. Trying to generate valid XML out of it isn't at all easy. Thankfully, Beautiful Soup, a wondrously lax HTML parser, came in and saved most of the day.
I both love and hate politics. It's humanity distilled right down to its core; power, tactics and feuds.