Graceful Exits

Simon makes the case for disambiguated URLs. He’s right, largely. I would say as a proviso, though, that URLs need to be hackable by the developer as well as by the user. The internal spaghetti that translates URLs to files in Django and Ruby on Rails is an initial barrier to developing with those systems, [...]

Now I know the title sounds presumptuous, but there’s a certain methodology I’ve settled into that seems to work really well for encouraging Javascript that’s legible and safe. I thought I’d share it with anyone that doesn’t consider themselves a JS playa, in case it’s of some use to you too.
Most Javascript libraries these [...]

I’ve been asked a couple of times recently, as part of separate projects, to split the results of a SQL query on whitespace within. Simply put, how does one go from:
foo
foo bar
quux
blort wuu spong

to the expanded form:
foo
foo
bar
quux
blort
wuu
spong

efficiently and cleanly, only using SQL? (In case anyone’s worried, I’ve scrubbed the data sets of any personal details [...]