My belief about what is good coding and what is poor is continually evolving. I have a much broader appreciation for creative solutions than I have in the past. Plunkit is being realized only because everyone involved is so open to crazy, it’ll-never-work ideas. A lot of things I am seeing lately, like some of the javascript libraries I have been researching, are becoming acceptable, even though when they were invented they were hacks.
Here is a wonderful example. It describes how today’s Martha Graham animation was created by Google. Go to google.com and watch it. Then go to http://www.acumenholdings.com/blog/… and read about it. You might have to refresh a few times–the site is under load.
Conceptually, it’s pretty easy to understand how the thing works. But before today, when it became a thing that GOOGLE did, you could have shown that code to 90% of the developers in the world and been laughed at. Because of how hacky it is. Because of how non-standard it is. There are times that out-of-the-box solutions while coding are bad–where it is essential to follow patterns. And there are times when only by being original and creative that you can accomplish what you set out to do.