{"id":184,"date":"2007-08-02T19:08:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T03:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/2007\/08\/02\/oh-snap\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T20:12:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T04:12:41","slug":"oh-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"oh snap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the real oddities of JavaScript toolkits and online message boards is the prevalence of fan boys.  The pattern basically goes like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ajaxian posts an article about something new in toolkit X<\/li>\n<li>Fan boys of other toolkits, regardless of the content of the article or great new feature, and often times without actually checking out the new feature, mention how great toolkit Y is and that you should use that instead, how that toolkit is better at Z, and then proceed to @#$% all over the work of the people working on toolkit X or product that uses toolkit X<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It sunk to a new pathetic low when Sam Stephenson blogged about improvements to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/556-an-under-the-hood-look-at-the-new-backpack\">Prototype and Backpack<\/a>.  The fan boys were obviously not quite aware that Sam was the creator of Prototype, which made it all the more funny with his comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ethan and Mark, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very happy with Prototype and script.aculo.us at 37signals, but thanks for your concern. Prototype has served me quite well since I created it in early 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Several of us at Dojo have used Backpack for a long time.  We like and encourage the use of any good quality open source project.  I encourage you to use and embrace the toolkit or toolkits that work best for you, the way you work, providing the features that you need.  I really don&#8217;t think the world is better served by the fan boy comments though, as it is just <a href=\"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/2007\/07\/20\/less-noise-more-signal\/\">wasting the time of the community<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the real oddities of JavaScript toolkits and online message boards is the prevalence of fan boys. The pattern basically goes like this: Ajaxian posts an article about something new in toolkit X Fan boys of other toolkits, regardless of the content of the article or great new feature, and often times without actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}