Comments on: How to Write a Standard (If You Must) http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-standard-if-you-must.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-write-standard-if-you-must Thinking the unthinkable, pondering the imponderable, effing the ineffable and scruting the inscrutable Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How to hire Guillaume Portes http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-2642 How to hire Guillaume Portes Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:06:33 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-a-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-2642 [...] capabilities of a single application and documenting it in infuriatingly useless detail, you can easily create a “Standard of [...] [...] capabilities of a single application and documenting it in infuriatingly useless detail, you can easily create a “Standard of [...]

]]> By: Jiri http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-1026 Jiri Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:22:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-a-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-1026 @Anonymous: I do believe the 40-day-October remark was a reference to the length of February 1900, which is incorrectly specified in OOXML (29 days rather than the correct 28). @Anonymous: I do believe the 40-day-October remark was a reference to the length of February 1900, which is incorrectly specified in OOXML (29 days rather than the correct 28).

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-789 Anonymous Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:33:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-a-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-789 > We checked the secret specification and it says that October has 40 days in it. Sorry guys, there is really nothing we can do.<br/><br/>More realistically: "We checked and there's no year before 1990. Sorry guys, there is really nothing we can do." > We checked the secret specification and it says that October has 40 days in it. Sorry guys, there is really nothing we can do.

More realistically: “We checked and there’s no year before 1990. Sorry guys, there is really nothing we can do.”

]]> By: Rob http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-207 Rob Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-a-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-207 Jeff, thanks, I missed that when it first came out. <br /><br />Honestly, I didn't initially intend for this post to be humorous. The first draft was called "The Anti-Patterns of Open Standards Development" and was entirely serious. But it also was terribly ponderous and boring, having to explain both the mistakes and the preferred techniques. <br /><br />So it hit me that taking a single point of view and running with it would result in something that would much flow better. Take the contrary point of view and rely on the intelligence of the reader to supply the counter argument. Jeff, thanks, I missed that when it first came out.

Honestly, I didn’t initially intend for this post to be humorous. The first draft was called “The Anti-Patterns of Open Standards Development” and was entirely serious. But it also was terribly ponderous and boring, having to explain both the mistakes and the preferred techniques.

So it hit me that taking a single point of view and running with it would result in something that would much flow better. Take the contrary point of view and rely on the intelligence of the reader to supply the counter argument.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-198 Anonymous Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:25:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-a-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-198 Mmm, tongue planted deeply in cheek, Colbert-like. Lovely. Mmm, tongue planted deeply in cheek, Colbert-like. Lovely.

]]> By: Jeff Kaplan http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-197 Jeff Kaplan Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:03:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/12/how-to-write-a-standard-if-you-must.html#comment-197 Rob,<br /><br />Wonderful. It's nice to see some humor and creativity injected into the debate to liven things up.<br /><br />You might have seen my ode of Lewis Carroll and standards some time back:<br />http://jakaplan.blogspot.com/2006/01/open-standards-through-looking-glass.html Rob,

Wonderful. It’s nice to see some humor and creativity injected into the debate to liven things up.

You might have seen my ode of Lewis Carroll and standards some time back:
http://jakaplan.blogspot.com/2006/01/open-standards-through-looking-glass.html

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