I’m sure you’ve heard the term “law of leaky abstraction”, apparently put forth by Joel Spolsky (if you’re unfamiliar, please go read it – it’s worth your time). Lots of people have blogged about what leaks, what doesn’t leak, why things leak and so on.
To deal with this, people often are in search of creating a “cleaner” abstraction layer that doesn’t leak. And how many times have you seen an internal framework that took way too long to create – time spent refactoring to keep it “clean” by hiding the underlying system ? I think this is a big mistake…
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I've upgraded from .Text 0.95 (yes, quite old) to Subtext. I had some issues with the .text import where I had to basically do everything manually (yuck) but here I am. The problems were all in the sql script, so I'd advise just running it manually from the get go. However, if you have problems getting my feed or whatever, please let me know. I'm not 100% confident that I got everything over with zero problems.
And, I'm excited to start posting more often. I've had many things lately that I wanted to blog on, but .text issues and time constraints caused me to abort...