As mentioned on the initial home page, this web log was started as part of the #100DaysToOffload challenge. I wanted to just get into the habit of writing about my thoughts and random doings more often and this was a good excuse.
I was looking into what blogging platforms are there and came across this nice post about doing just doing handmade, artisinal, bespoke raw html. This is the third post and I have to say it is kind of fun. There is no having to mess around with new frameworks that will go out of style in a couple years, no learning curve, and to get started on a new blog post you just copy/paste and old one.
Some of the earliest dev work I did as learning HTML in highschool circa the year 2000 so this is a nice blast from the past.
I've gotten crotchety in my professional dev work-life as well, having soured on a lot of reactive frameworks, even MVVM. I worked with a team that was in an MVC framework and working with GoF patterns and it was the cleanest, easiest, most maintanable codebase I've ever come across. I also worked with a team in a reactive framework and it was not so. I'd suggested working with some common GoF patterns within that reactive framework, and after an initial pass they were hard to fit in, and even using some newer patterns that were supposed to help working with a reactive framework they weren't as effective in making a clean, maintainable codebase. It was still better than before, but apparently wasn't the way to work within a reactive codebase.
I do like MVVM, but still prefer MVC, with a VM for the view and GoF patterns to help make the controller layer as thin as possible. Some may argue that that is just MVVM, with the C being the bindings between data and view, with some transforms. Yeah. :)
I guess the point of this blog post is don't jump on shiny new things. Old things work great.
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