Thursday, October 4, 2012

A big mess (draft)


Okay, so I have been creating large scale web applications for over 10 years, and have seen allot of other people's work also. The one thing that jumps out at me, is just how ridiculously disheveled and unorganized our applications are. Its like every application I have ever worked on was to impersonate a 13 year old boy's room. Actually, when I was 13, I think I kept my room in better order then these applications. 

Usually I am faced with a dog-pile of hundreds of items stored in the folders, "Scripts", "Images ", and "Styles". Without any useful segregation  separation  or tagging. Just hundreds of things, and all I know, is someone tossed this name on it, and said, "hey, its a image" or "he-ay, this is a style sheet". And just to be clear, just knowing something is a style sheet, is not really useful, especially when the style sheet in question contains thousands of selectors, which go as far as to over-write each other in order of precedence.

So what I really want most in life, is for my work life to be more usefully organized on the file-system. So I can up with Dhui, for a project that I am working on.

Now Dhui, good bless its soul, is at it heart, a series of CSS classes that are used to decorate the class attribute of HTML tags. Once you have established your tags, you place all you dhui related resources in a location.

o I just started a new github project called Gooi. Which is located here.