Whatever I might have $_REQUESTed, I didn’t ask for that October 13th, 2007

Imagine you have a Drupal site: I have several, so that’s easy for me. Say you’ve got an index aggregating lots of your content in a listing, and it spans lots of pages. It’s probably a view created with the views module, slicing through your content in a special way.
Drupal has a core paging module [...]

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.php? .cgi? .who-cares? February 8th, 2007

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, [...]

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