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[Norman ONeil]

Dandified :-) I am going to have a to find a way to work that into a  
conversation in the next few days.

Norman O'Neil
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On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Jeff Siegel wrote:

> <fancypants.defined>
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> Fancy-pants (spelling per Merriam-Webster):  overly elegant or refined
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> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fancy-pants
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>
> I like this definition from dictionary.com. "fancy or snobbish;  
> foppish; dandified."
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fancypants
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>
> </fancypants.defined>
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> Jeff
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>
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> From: Norman ONeil <norman at enorm2.com>
> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:50:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Incorrect Cached URLs
>
> Well put.
>
> I just liked the idea of using the expression fancypants :-) I  
> think it should be used more often.
>
> Norman
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>
>
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Norman ONeil <norman at enorm2.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> fancypants?
>>
>> Ok, I'm going to get beat up for saying it, but I do feel strongly  
>> about this.
>>
>> <rant>
>>
>> Last year in the Netherlands I dedicated a series of slides on a  
>> topic
>> that has me gritting my teeth: Developer Vanity.
>>
>> Look, just because you know how to abstract something out into a
>> helper and then dynamically call methods based on the actions of the
>> method names called in the parent, doesn't mean you need to do it.  
>> And
>> you certainly don't need to make the rest of us, who predominately
>> have tight deadlines, have to live in the same fancypants world.
>>
>> I once used Oracle to store java source in the rows, and then ran a
>> query that randomly selected a few rows, concatenated the java  
>> source,
>> compiled and executed it all in the database space. Was an
>> interesting, if not kinky experience. Now, what was the practical
>> outcome? There WASN'T one. Zilch. It was an academic exercise with
>> absolutely zero practical value. And most importantly I had the
>> restraint to know that it was a pointless capability with a severely
>> limited application, and never tried to bring it out of the realm of
>> exercise into the world of execution.
>>
>> I just wished other developers could demonstrate the same restraint.
>> There is a LOT of code out there that quite simply does not need to
>> be. Adds bloat, complexity, and generally diminishes the value of
>> everyone's hard work.
>>
>> </rant>
>>
>> With that said, I was wrong about $live_site. I was under extreme
>> pressure to deliver a major site when they removed that feature
>> (before the 1.5 framework was final), looks like it made it back into
>> the framework in just a slightly different place...
>>
>> You CAN still enforce hostnames by using the JURI class on the  
>> front end:
>>
>> http://api.joomla.org/Joomla-Framework/Environment/JURI.html#base
>>
>> When looking at the source code, it's right there on line 209 of the
>> base() method. Pulls the value of $live_site from JConfig. Woo-hoo!
>>
>> -- Mitch
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