On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2008, at 6:42 PM, denstar wrote:
>
>> VMWare ROXORS!  But parallels *does* have the slickest integration
>> with MS I've *ever* seen.  Wow!
>>
> I haven't tried parallels yet, but since I already have vmware fusion
> I doubt I'll get around to it anytime soon. :(

Right-o!  I heard fusion was faster, but only used it for a month, and
with a different image, so don't really know.

>> With that out of the way:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
>> ....
>>> Also, since the above urls are nested resources...Users have
>>> policies...it's super simple to scope the policies so that the users
>>> only see their own policies.
>>
>> How hard would it be to print say, two policies in one PDF with that
>> setup?
>> /me thinks: just append another /policy/policyID/ to the url?  And two
>> users's info at once?-- ditto!
>>
> well, that would go against the nested resource, unless of course a
> policy has another policy.....
> but also to that effect http://mycoolapp.com/users/{userid}/policies
> will give you a list all the policies and http://mycoolapp.com/users/
> {userid}/policies.xml will you give the xml representation...etc.

Ah.  Excellent!

>
>>> Doing this enabled me to make a normal html based app, move portions
>>> of it to ajax/xhr and then start to transition it to flex without
>>> having to change any of the base logic.
>>
>> This seems more like a "design pattern" than something inherent to
>> the language.
>>
> very true, but some languages make it more simple to attempt something
> like this.

True.  To a point.  There are always trade-offs, in this non-perfect world.  =]

>> As in, a good coder should have the same setup, no matter the
>> language.
>
> Maybe in a perfect world, but I think you run up against limitations
> of the language at times....e.g the lack of a null.

Heh.  That tugs at the philosopher in me: if you know that there is
not a null, isn't that sorta like knowing?

Sorta that eastern idea of "empty space"  containing form, sorta.

Kinda.

-- 
If my good pals the atheists could prove there is no god, the belief
would make much more sense to me.  :-)

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