Quoting ian sison (mailing list) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In this case i would prefer that we stick to the generally accepted BEST > PRACTICES, and avoid the 'it works for me, so screw your post' stuff.
Just as an unrelated aside, and to add a little levity to the discussion: The term "best practices" _ought_ to mean... well, the practices that are best according to professional standards of competence and due care. However, to my amusement (and no small amount of amazement), I have found that that is _not_ what it usually means in business and industry. Instead, it tends to mean "doing what other people are doing". I'm not kidding. I've had discussions where the customer was a tiny bit unfamiliar with what I was proposing, and his objection was "I'm not sure we'd be following industry best practices, if we were to do that." E.g., we'd be talking about a small static Web site, and I'd want to use Boa because it's small, fast, and built for high security, but the customer would be pushing for IIS on Windows 2003 just to follow "best practices". In other words, it's a code phrase for "If something goes wrong, I want to escape being the specific target of blame by pointing out that we only made the same mistake that most other people did." Please note that I'm not _objecting_ to your usage in any way. If anything, I think it's wonderful to reclaim the term and insist on a meaning for it that actually makes sense and is useful. I'm just warning that other people may think you intend that other, rather debased definition when you use the term -- and may intend it themselves, when they use it. -- Cheers, kill -9 them all. Rick Moen Let init sort it out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
