YamlInFiveMinutes: I mentioned YAML a couple of times in a prior post, and while looking for a good link, I found this little tutorial. It’s quite good, and, true to the title, it’s short — I think I got through it in four minutes.
YAML is so much nicer than XML for simple serialization of data. It’s much more human-readable. Rails (and Ruby itself) are very infatuated with YAML. You see it much more than XML in those frameworks.
At one point or another, all content management systems (CMS) come down to some kind of datatype. You have to be able to set a field to a string, or an integer, or whatever, and then enforce and manage that piece of data. The idea is that you take…