Articles published in my blog
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Tagging - Broken by design
by Kore Nordmann at Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:46:11 +0100
In the meantime tagging, as a folksonomy, is often nearly used as equivalent to the whole Web-2.0-hype. Nowadays you can't develop any new application without adding tags, and I wanted to do the same. But reviewing the system in a bit more complex environment shows some major flaws, which can also be detected in the implementations of simple applications. This article lists some structural problems, and will be followed by other articles describing solutions for some of these cases. read more…
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Why are you using BBCodes?
by Kore Nordmann at Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:02:40 +0200
The discussion on my blog post "Do not use regular expressions for parsing" ended in a discussion about BBcodes in general. I just used them as an example to demonstrate why it it is impossible to parse such a language with regular expressions - and mentioned in a subclause, that I don't see any sense in using them at all. So why use them at all? read more…
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The long way to a semantic web
by Kore Nordmann at Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:20:13 +0200
HTML does not work, neither does XHTML. So how can this be solved without waiting years for better browsers? read more…
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Why active record sucks
by Kore Nordmann at Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:12:59 +0200
It is not really Active Record which sucks but the implied, perhaps just misinterpreted, common usage as an ORM (object relational mapping). If you want ORm do it right and use AR where it belongs to. read more…
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Do not try using regular expressions for parsing
by Kore Nordmann at Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:55:45 +0100
Often people try to use regular expression to parse markup like BBCodes or HTML. Why this will never work, or can work, and why BBCode suck in general. As a reference to reduce the amount of explanations on this topic for the future. read more…
