I am frequently confronted by a dilemma while working on new projects — that is, writing new code and designing new architectures. The whole time I’m designing the architecture I think of how much better it could be solved for a more general case. There is a constant temptation to step back and [...]
Can URLs Be Too Clean?
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
I have long been a proponent of Clean URLs (URIs). The URL should be treated as a human-readable representation of the data resouces being accessed. Many sites are getting better about this, especially with the growing popularity of applications like WordPress, Django, Ruby on Rails, etc. which make it incredibly easy to sculpt beautiful URLs.
An [...]