RSS Authors: fight!
Posted on December 1, 2004
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Over on inessential.com Brent Simmons, author of the particularly excellent NetNewsWire wrote a post about the object oriented nature of the Atom syndication spec and about how nicely that structure maps to logical class definitions in his code. Cool stuff if you’re into that sort of thing (as I just happen to be).
But wait, that’s not all.
Dare Obasanjo, author of the Windows-based RSS Bandit looked at the one screenshot of Brent’s Atom-parsing classes and decided he’d school Brent on the apparent inefficiencies of his code. Brent responds in detail, and most civily I might add. Much more civily than I would have. Read all about it in the comments.
As I developer I happen to think it’s a bit rude to walk into someone else’s house and start picking at their code, esp. on the basis of a single, and partial, screenshot.
But the funny thing is: the current version of RSS Bandit, while probably the best of the Windows-based RSS readers, is about two years and three user interface and usability experts behind the current version of NetNewsWire.
Dario, dude: you really ought’a clean up your own mess before you go schooling others on their housekeeping.
But then again… maybe Dario was just phishing for implementation details? Maybe he was trying to get Brent to actually reveal his secrets by goading him… maybe RSS Bandit’s method isn’t as good as he claims… the plot thickens.