2006DEC101948
Busted URL's suck
Damn link in the article , Simplicity is broken. I hate this becuase the link that's broken (or missing) is always the one you want to read.
It's interesting because I know Joel runs Citydesk in debug mode. So if the app was checking the links it would have been noticed. Citydesk is a solid product (way back when it was a new product I gave it a severe bashing and it came out trumps in every department.. even sent back some improvements which they took aboard and improved beyond what I suggested.) but it looks like Citydesk does not have a link checker.
Link rot is a minor problem, but it is annoying to users who digest sites. As developers this is solvable. Especially for links on your own site.
Django URLField
One nice thing I found with django is the URLField type that checks the existance of an url at the time you associate data with the field (AFAICT), You still have to regularly check for link rot with link checking tools.
2006DEC101948
Busted URL's suck
Damn link in the article , Simplicity is broken. I hate this becuase the link that's broken (or missing) is always the one you want to read.
It's interesting because I know Joel runs Citydesk in debug mode. So if the app was checking the links it would have been noticed. Citydesk is a solid product (way back when it was a new product I gave it a severe bashing and it came out trumps in every department.. even sent back some improvements which they took aboard and improved beyond what I suggested.) but it looks like Citydesk does not have a link checker.
Link rot is a minor problem, but it is annoying to users who digest sites. As developers this is solvable. Especially for links on your own site.
Django URLField
One nice thing I found with django is the URLField type that checks the existance of an url at the time you associate data with the field (AFAICT), You still have to regularly check for link rot with link checking tools.