How short can you code

Still on cloud number 9 with jQuery, I thought of a new slogan for it:
jQuery – how short can you code?

Dreaming in Code

I just finished reading Dreaming in code by Scott Rosenberg.
In this book, Scott tried to answer the question on why is building software is so hard. To answer the question he spent 3 years following the development of an open source PIM project called Chandler.
It was a very interesting book albeit it’s also [...]

Quality

After all we are not building software for producing rockets.
The comment was said in the context of building web application. I think the person is trying to argue that given the limited resources and tight deadlines, you cannot be too idealistic about what goes under the hood (table layout instead of CSS, scattered SQL [...]