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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Andrei Straut8-Aug-12 23:05
Andrei Straut8-Aug-12 23:05 
[Sarcasm start]
Yes, and on the client side especially. Even if you use jQuery.Ajax, POST is soooo much more complicated than GET. You have to type an extra letter, which is much more effort than should be required for anyone. For instance, this is a jQuery GET call:

JavaScript
$.ajax({
	type : 'GET',
	url : "url.jsp",
	data: {
		id: client_id,
		action_code: 2,
                action_data: $('#content').val()
	},
	success: function(result) {
		$('#list-content').html(result);
	},
        error: function(result) {
		alert(result);
	},
});


compared to...this abomination:

JavaScript
$.ajax({
	type : 'POST',
	url : "url.jsp",
	data: {
		id: client_id,
		action_code: 2,
                action_data: $('#content').val()
	},
	success: function(result) {
		$('#list-content').html(result);
	},
        error: function(result) {
		alert(result);
	},
});


Notice the difference? It's soooooomuch easier to simply GET instead of POST-ing, isn't it?
[/Sarcasm end]

On the other hand, I'm having fun now with LINQ parsing the list of products from suppliers (didn't get to play with LINQ so far, but I'm quite liking it. Heard it's pretty slow compared to the other alternatives, but in my case speed is not that much of an issue)
Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater.
Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater.
Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.


modified 9-Aug-12 5:22am.

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