On 29 apr 2009, at 18:33, Kent Brewster wrote: >> From Kent Brewster's comments I think he didn't read the spec before >> he started trying to implement OAuth. He also clearly didn't try out >> the published test cases. My impression is that he didn't have a >> full >> understanding of the OAuth protocol before implementing it. > > Oh, freely admitted. I'm a bad, bad developer, more hobbyist than > professional. (It pays the rent, though. :) > > Maybe my learning style is broken, but I can't claim to understand > something before I've successfully implemented it several times, and > even then all I may really understand are the specific copy-and-paste > steps I took to make it work. > > I don't think I'm alone in this; there have to be developers out there > who have never touched OAuth and are under terrific pressure to get it > working right freaking now. For them it's much less important to know > how a thing works than it is how to work it. Does that make sense?
Actually, I don't think your learning style is broken. The "just do it" works very well for learning languages, frameworks, swimming and a lot of other things. It is just that with protocols it is useful to have a look at the map before you start sailing. :-) I hope that at some point OAuth will be a defacto standard in all frameworks, toolkits and whatnots. That will help everyone who doesn't have the time/energy for rolling his/her own implementation of OAuth. - Marc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
