Web Namespace Design

“Simplicity and rigor are the essential qualities of a durable web namespace: As I was writing last week’s column, I checked my homepage for a reference to an earlier column, but the link was broken. Say what? I soon found, as some of you have also found, that a planned migration of Byte.com (from TechWeb’s content management system to Dr. Dobb’s CMS) had altered the former namespace…”