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Getting Started Contributing Back To Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the foot-in-the-door dept.

markfreeman writes "The one burning need I have felt over the last year was to get involved with open source as a contributor. I have wanted to help with documentation, advocacy, and most of all, with programming. Here's the story of how I got started, thanks to openhatch.org (which calls itself 'an open source involvement engine') and how you can too."

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  1. Java Sucks. by Petersko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "there's a curious lack of Java projects."

    Java Sucks. There... I said it. It's a bizarre, overweight, crushingly painful piece of crap that just needs to die already. Nobody gives a crap about "write once, run anywhere", even if it existed, and relying on any of the common frameworks sets you up to create a poorly performing piece of crap.

    You'd think that EJB 2.0 would have killed Java for good, but for some reason it's still kicking.

    I'm not saying you can't build good stuff in Java. I'm just saying you can do it faster and cheaper in other technologies, with better performance. The good Java stuff is hand-coded to the bottom, at great expense.