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  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF

    Feb 12
    29

    This is a repost from my personal blog... Last weekend, I showed a very early behind-the-scenes preview of what will eventually be the next version of CoasterBuzz (the fifth major revision in 12 years) to some folks that participated in the PointBuzz off-season tour at Cedar Point. It's very early in the process, but I thought it would be fun to talk about some of the things that have changed over the years. This series of posts probably won't mean much to non-code-monkeys, but it's fun for...

  • Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs

    Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs

    Feb 11
    03

    Over a decade ago, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web instructed the world know that cool URIs don’t change with what appears to be a poem, but it doesn’t rhyme and it’s not haiku. What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change. What sorts of URI change? URIs don't change: people change them. In a related article, URL as UI, usability expert Jakob Nielsen lists the following criteria for a usable site: a domain name that is easy to remember and easy to spell...

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