[ZWeb] upcomming chat

R. David Murray bitz@bitdance.com
Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:34:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Paul Everitt wrote:
> That's a good point, I hadn't thought of that.  Still, we shouldn't be
> talking about that many sections, and the section owners shouldn't
> change that much through the year.  If we have more than 10 or 15
> sections, then we've done something wrong.

Programming principle: if a piece of data that represents the
*same* external entity appears more than once, it should be
drawn from the same data source.  Otherwise you end up with
various parts of the program (web site) out of sync with each
other because someone changes it one place and forgets to
change it in another place...

I'm betting there will be other places where the information
about the (list of) section owners will prove useful, later.

--RDM