Archive for May 28, 2006

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Own Your Data

Ned Batchelder:

This may sound heretical in these days of standards for everything, but I’ve had the best successes by designing my own ad-hoc data formats. Rather than adopting (or worse, adapting) a standard to fit your purposes, you should create your own data representation. It will give you the best fit for the problem at hand.