A sordid tale for the Xmas holidays
So I get this email this morning from a guy in North Dakota basically telling me that I’m a cretin for having written an article about XML with bad XML in it that won’t run. He includes a link to the article, and then proceeds to give me advice on how to fix my stuff.
Okay, cool. Here’s the link he sent, by the way. If you read the piece, you will indeed find a ton of errors in the code, plus little misspellings and other things along the way.
The piece, entitled “Building a Simple Ajax Application” was first written by me for PHP World and published in their issue #6 way back in November of 2006. It was only made available in print, and was only online for a week or two. I have a copy of the magazine here in my closet, and even a quick perusal reveals none of the errors in code or misspellings you see in the link above.
So, not only has this outfit (S & S Media, in Germany) reprinted my piece without paying me, they’ve also taken the liberty of adding changes and errors (presumably to avoid detection by search engines???) that would frustrate anyone who would try to run the code. Oh, and along the way, cause people to sully my reputation….and hey, I can do just fine on that front all on my own.
Merry Christmas! Grrrrrr.
