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A Note On Checking In Open Source Crap

Friday, May 8, 2009

Ok, so I just announced the my new google code project, and I’m checking in the 0.00000002 alpha version of the code. And this is a media app, so I’ve got some test data, some mp3s. And I didn’t think before I committed, and low and behold subclipse is chugging away in it’s customary slow [...]

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amazon kindle 2 first impressions & review — it sucks

Monday, February 9, 2009

Amazon is the best place to buy books, cds, electronics and other memorabilia. But what happens if you want your hands in all the pies? After a sloppy launch of Kindle 1, a year ago, Amazon released Kindle 2, hoping that it would be the next best thing, something of a revolutionary device like IPhone. [...]

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The DO NOT’s

Friday, January 23, 2009

I haven’t posted in about 8 years or something like that. Besides being lazy and uninspired, I really haven’t learned anything new or exciting in the past 2 years. I have nothing to share that would be beneficial to all of you. However, some of you may benefit from what I have learned NOT to [...]

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hotels.com & priceline.com only make bookings in Central Time *only*

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

So, I was driving on I99, towards San Francisco, two hours away from the airport. I opened the browser on my iPhone. Hotels.com has an iPhone interface. Sweet. It was 9:50pm, I searched for hotels near the SF airport area for the same day. I got 6 results. Now for some reason, the radio was [...]

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Just Venting

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

I hate stupid users. *RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIING* Me: “Hello” SU: “Why is the application going so incredibly slow?” Me: “Because I coded it so that if it finds your user ID it will run slower.” SU: “I’m reporting you to HR!” Me: “OK, but you’ll be wasting your time.” SU: “And why is that?!” Me: “Because I [...]

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When Google Owns You

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Chris Brogan asks the tough questions about the internet Empire Google. What happens if you’re a user of Gmail and other Google services, and one day they disable your account? Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn’t get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn’t get into [...]

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Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede Review — Bloated and dissappointing

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) was released yesterday and I had a first look at it by configuring both the versions — jee & java. Here are my first impressions and review after migrating my 3.3 workspace of projects into the new one: – Reduced memory foot print? No. Reduced distribution size? No. Java distro is 123MB [...]

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J5EE …? JEE …? Need a better name than J2EE

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Are you tired of being called a Java Developer or a J2EE Developer? Strange, how buzzwords end up becoming an essential noun in your technical life. J2EE, a.k.a Java “2″ Enterprise Environment has already become obsolete and the newer version 5.0 has grown increasingly popular in the last couple of years. However, the term J2EE [...]

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Code is a Depreciable Asset

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

James Turner just published a thought provoking article on oreillynet, The Worthlessness of Code: The cold reality that software companies try to ignore is that ANY major piece of software needs to be rewritten from the ground up eventually. They age, get bit-rotted, are obsoleted by new technology and generally become less and less supportable. [...]

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OK, listen up.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

LIB is LIHB, not LIBE! Do you put your executables in the BINE directory or program logs in the VAIR directory?!!! I rest my case.

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