YAML, JSON and Config Files Some years ago, one of my very first blog posts was a piece on how terribly XML fails its essential design goals. I mentioned that YAML or JSON were much better compromise solutions to the essential problem of expressing data in a form that is easily readable by both people […]
So I never wrote that next article on DLLs. It’s five years since I wrote my “Old Man C++” series of blog posts on the changes I’ve observed in the software development world since I ‘came up’ in the mid-90s. I was going to talk about Windows DLLs, and all wonderful and horrific things that […]
Sometimes (often) a project doesn’t turn out to be quite what you envisaged. Blogging has been like that for me. As in most situations where you try something new, plans and ideas don’t align with reality. For me and blogging, it was understanding that blog posts don’t all need to be long, researched articles. I […]