i.justrealized

I updated my blog layout. Things are pretty messy in the past. The colors did not look right, the links aren’t working and I lost interest.

Theme: Dialectical subtlety

The key focuses of this theme are elegance, readability and simplicity.

Some powerful WordPress features - such as previous post links, categories and trackback information - are sort of removed or made less obvious. Tags are preferred over categories too, it is also the main method to sort the posts. (more…)

I was just looking at Django’s design philosophies and I agree on many of their points. It made me start to rethink the many mistakes that I made in coding. I often build things that are not loosely-coupled enough and when it comes to extending, things are a total mess. And I got used to working alone and I tend to get lazy and start to use the IF ternary operator (the question mark and colon) which is really messy.

• Loose coupling
• Less code - less code usually means less bugs for me.
• Explicit is better than implicit - I don’t mind writing more code if it makes things clearer. The hardest thing about CakePHP is that it does quite a lot of behind the scenes things and I don’t really know what’s going on. CakePHP actually does a lot of automation for you and it’s harder for beginners to start understanding them.
• Don’t repeat yourself (DRY) - Of course, of course.
• Encourage best practices - Python forces you to indent things a particular way. Indentation is part of their code syntax. It would seem restrictive to begin with but it turns out to be some sort of bonus feature for me.

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