I think that you are currently in the sycophant circle of Dave. He wrote that bit as something that will allow you to continue to accept Dave even though many others don’t. It is blatant manipulation. I find though that Dave’s syncophants are usually either somewhat conscious of the exchange-relationship they have with Dave and thus are able to benefit from it or they are lacking in insight. Either way, this phenomenon on the net of Dave and his sycophants has been incredibly interesting to watch.

-NaS

Obviously, we should all be using XML-RPC rather than SOAP, because its sufficiently easy for Dave to comprehend. Doesn’t matter its not natively supported on environments like, you know that little thing, .NET.

“Some people like Python, some like Ruby, and some like environments that other people don’t think of as environments. Roml’s hypothesis only works in a monoculture; sometimes it looks like there is only one development environment that matters, but there’s always someone, who’s doing something important, who isn’t using the consensus platform.”

Yep, and they all support SOAP! Welcome to classes not structs Dave!

They must be joined at the hip:

DW: Memeorandum sucks RS: I’ve stopped using meme trackers…

DW: Sob, I’m fed up with this blog stuff (looks up to see if anyone noticed) RS: I’m fed up with blogging…oh wait, it’s my job, erm…