Re: New AWS-based website

[mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:00:23 PM UTC+2, Shark8 wrote:
> On Thursday, April 12, 2012 8:28:16 AM UTC-6, Thomas Locke wrote:
> > 
> > > I also did not use the AWS session management, as I find it not very
> > > convincing. Any nontrivial session-based operation requires the
> > > implementation of additional data structures, which can easily
> > > accommodate the complete session handling. There is no reason to use
> > > multiple layers of mapping data structures for something that is a
> > > consistent functional block.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Ahh yes, the AWS session management system. I too feel that it would be
> > nice if it were a bit more "flexible", for lack of a better word.
> 
> Slightly off-topic, but it's my general impression that a lot of cruft/difficulty in web-development stems from the attempt to impose state on what was developed to be stateless. Would you agree?

Well, I never thought about it, but now that you say that... Yes, in my (small) experience of SW for web, what made the PHP code an horrible mess was to try to maintain a status between two different visits of the same site.