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I have a love hate relationship with microformats. The apostles who think they're the end all be all of the semantic web drive me insane. 'Semantic Web' aside, microformats are a powerful approache to reusable design. Consistent markup with the appropriate JS or CSS can make for great reusable UI widgets.

I'm not a big fan of OO development. I think the OO approach is poor for readability and code comprehension. However, it does make for great black boxes. I really appreciate OO for encapsulating executable code. I recently wrote a module called ImageAPI for drupal that encapsulates Images in an object with a procedural interface for manipulating the Images stored in the objects. Later I wrote a wrapper around FFmpeg and took it a step further and replaced the procedural interface with methods.

There were a few problems this nicely encapsulated.