Quasi-Popular?

I followed the link Peter Bell offered today of the rundown of various web frameworks. I kept following to the Wikipedia article for my particular favorite framework, Model-Glue. Where I discovered this line:

Written by Joe Rinehart, a quasi-popular ColdFusion blogger…

Really, quasi-popular? That seems a bit awkward not to mention inaccurate.

Joe, you're at least semi-popular in my book.

September 13, 2007 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 11:54 AM

ColdFusion, Random, Web Development,

Comments

Never heard of you. You make internets or something?

Posted by: Cozmo at September 14, 2007 11:17 AM

I understand quasipopularity can be perfectly measured on a Heisenberg scale.

Posted by: Jeff Porten at September 14, 2007 1:26 PM

Well, according to Merriam Webster:

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/quasi

Quasi means: 1 : having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes

So a M2 afficianado might suggest it resembles a framework, but without the flexibility of distinguishing listeners from filters required for more complex apps.

A Fuseboxer might suggest it resembles a framework but without the ease of use required for non-OO programmers to work with it.

A Model-gluer on the other hand would no doubt suggest that it resembled a framework in that it allowed you to create quality apps quicker and more efficiently and it was only missing the b*llsh!t and cult like status of frameworks like RoR.

:->

Posted by: Peter Bell at September 19, 2007 9:55 AM

RoR b*llshit? That statement requires elucidation from Peter Bell. I've worked on model-glue and RoR and found RoR to be simple, concise and capable (This makes no statement about mg). I lost XML configuration files and gained a console to run code in and gained a first-rate ORM (mg, I'm talking to you). RoR's MVCness is lucidly designed and easy to follow. The 'cult' you speak of is really quite nice. They only ask that you sacrifice your allegiance to a specific technology. Furthermore, I think to wholly align yourself to a specific technology, cf or ruby or x, is to subordinate yourself to it.

Posted by: Danny at September 19, 2007 3:44 PM

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