After reading the IBM/VA agreement article, I must ask:
When's slashdot moving ton a J2EE webapp that employs Websphere and DB2?
Seriously. This is a very odd combo. Either VA agreed to use IBM's software and prevent JBoss and mySQL/postgres from being on sourceforge, or VA will move its projects like the news sites and sourceforge over to IBM products like Websphere and DB2.
I don't see any other advantage to IBM making the agreement...
Even these days, old-school Perl CGI is often the right tool for the job. Unless you're developing 100% for IEWin, IIS, and MS-SQL, ASP never is.
Go to monster and search on perl/cgi based jobs for web work.
Now search on Java based jobs for web work.
In general,
Your general simple/small/little processing pages use perl.
Your smaller companies that require dynamic pages use ASP.
Large business that have huge enterprise sites with multiple intraweb applications run Java/J2EE.
I've had multiple jobs that required me to change a smaller webapp from perl into Java since it started small and grew into a large program and started becoming difficult to maintain.
If I had time, I'd love to take slashcode and make it into a fully J2EE website to prove, once and for all, how much of an advantage it is for large websites to change to J2EE.
Now, don't get me wrong, perl is a WONDERFUL scripting language that I use almost daily. It makes great little sites (or even large sites that don't require a huge amount of processing/code) that you need to create in a short amount of time. Just, when it comes to making a large project with funding and time, J2EE has enough advantages and features that makes the job so much nicer. Maybe I'll make a journal entry to fully argue the points back and forth.
Perl CGI, when done correctly, can be a good solution for a large enterprise E-Commerce website. I don't like the look of the language, nor do I like how OOP is slapped in.
BUT
The chances of getting a large group of perl developers to code a large enterprise E-Comerce website and not take shortcuts nor kludges, and not to just fall away from good design and architecture is very rare.
Java, along with J2EE, JSPs, and taglibs FORCE you to follow good practice and design. Its a lot harder to 'kludge' something up without still following design and OOP (granted, its still possible). Another thing I LOVE telling C++/Perl/ASP people is taglibs. No other language has anything similar. An HTML monkey, that has NO coding experience, can modify JSP's that utilize taglibs. It just produces XML that HTML monkeys view as just more HTML tags.
All in all, having a perfectly designed J2EE website (built with experienced J2EE developers) vs a perfectly designed Perl/CGI website (built with experienced Perl developers) would show that the J2EE website would be easier to maintain and the ability of non-developers to change the design of the pages without any trouble.
The only negative point of J2EE is that its MADE for large projects. If you have a small e-commerce website, J2EE is overkill, and will take too much time to write. Perl/CGI is great for this type of site. But that is where I draw the line.
1.) This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Remember, Junis (from Afghanastan) was able to bury a Commodore in sand for years (and you know how the heat is out there), dig it up, run it, get on the internet, and download movies with it!
I bet he'd have GREAT advice for anyone that required running a computer in hot, humid environments (although he's more into the "desert" environment than the "water" environment).
Bleh, I didn't ask for ways around it. I have a few computers networked to me "1 computer only" cablemodem (including a linux server dishing out webpages from a custom DNS, using dyndns.org), and I know how to hide it from the cable company. That wasn't my point. I'd like to do this with no strings attached, and not having to worry about the cable company noticing that I'm serving up webpages and stuff, and disconnect me.
I want a service that gives me a static IP address. The best I have right now is to co-lo and its waaay out of my pricerange.
Honestly, my cablemodem is plenty fast enough for me. I'd like to know of a cheap alternative to having a static IP, and allow more than 2 machines to access the internet without anything fancy going on on my end.
Some record breaking events are wonderful for the human race (first to fly across the ocean, first in space, first on the moon, breaking the sound barrier, etc...). These records open up science to a new realm that all of society will eventually benefit from.
Ballooning across the world (quick rant: honestly, it wasn't "across the world", because he did it on a very southern part of the globe. I can go to the south pole, walk in a circle, and claim I walked around the world!)? Having the highest flying glider?
Surely there's better things that can be done with that money...
If you are having issues with pests in your home, using this (if it even works) is just attempting to cure the symptoms. The real solution is to wash the dishes, clean the house, mop the floors, and find out why and how these things are getting in.
Best prevention? Cleanliness!
BTW - Arguing that you will use this while camping will just make you look dumb.
My point was, there are MATURE ways of combating the legislation. Write letters to your congressman. Using "mob rule" strategies will just make it worse (they'll go against congress with a "see? This is what we are trying to stop!" attitude, and congress will agree).
Hacking someone that's using hacking as a stepping stone to circumvent laws is just plain stupid.
Yup, the best way to convince a large corporation/government office/anyone over the age of 20, is to act like a child.
Immaturity like this only HARMS what we are trying to do.
Grow up kids.
This is getting rediculous!
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What, Me Worry?
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· Score: 5, Insightful
The FIRST time this asteroid story was listed on/., most Score:5's explained the likelyhood and how it was being blown out of proportion.
Now, we are on the third story, and no one is relaxing, because we all relaxed after a few intelligent astronomy geeks pointed it out the first story. The slashback that pointed out that the astronomy geeks were right is a nice touch, but a THIRD story about the SAME THING that we ALREADY FIGURED OUT, in my opinion, is -1 redundant.
Microsoft's Eric Rudder is this years winning of the "Blatantly Obvious Award" for those that point out the obvious two years after it was first obvious.
This really isn't news. Just MS admitting to it (after everyone else already knew it).
Slashdot Mirror
After reading the IBM/VA agreement article, I must ask:
When's slashdot moving ton a J2EE webapp that employs Websphere and DB2?
Seriously. This is a very odd combo. Either VA agreed to use IBM's software and prevent JBoss and mySQL/postgres from being on sourceforge, or VA will move its projects like the news sites and sourceforge over to IBM products like Websphere and DB2.
I don't see any other advantage to IBM making the agreement...
... he hasn't posted an article since Jul 15th!
Is he still employed with OSDN??
Inquiring minds want to know!
Read gmhowell's journal. He's always home-brewing something and writes entries on it.
Seeing that all geeks love Iron Chef, I have to ask, would you be willing to go against an Iron Chef? If so, which would you pick??
Which are the utensiles/cookware that is a MUST for any kitchen?
...its not US-centric enough!
(yeah, bad attempt at humor)
Even these days, old-school Perl CGI is often the right tool for the job. Unless you're developing 100% for IEWin, IIS, and MS-SQL, ASP never is.
Go to monster and search on perl/cgi based jobs for web work.
Now search on Java based jobs for web work.
In general,
Your general simple/small/little processing pages use perl.
Your smaller companies that require dynamic pages use ASP.
Large business that have huge enterprise sites with multiple intraweb applications run Java/J2EE.
I've had multiple jobs that required me to change a smaller webapp from perl into Java since it started small and grew into a large program and started becoming difficult to maintain.
If I had time, I'd love to take slashcode and make it into a fully J2EE website to prove, once and for all, how much of an advantage it is for large websites to change to J2EE.
Now, don't get me wrong, perl is a WONDERFUL scripting language that I use almost daily. It makes great little sites (or even large sites that don't require a huge amount of processing/code) that you need to create in a short amount of time. Just, when it comes to making a large project with funding and time, J2EE has enough advantages and features that makes the job so much nicer. Maybe I'll make a journal entry to fully argue the points back and forth.
Perl CGI, when done correctly, can be a good solution for a large enterprise E-Commerce website. I don't like the look of the language, nor do I like how OOP is slapped in.
BUT
The chances of getting a large group of perl developers to code a large enterprise E-Comerce website and not take shortcuts nor kludges, and not to just fall away from good design and architecture is very rare.
Java, along with J2EE, JSPs, and taglibs FORCE you to follow good practice and design. Its a lot harder to 'kludge' something up without still following design and OOP (granted, its still possible). Another thing I LOVE telling C++/Perl/ASP people is taglibs. No other language has anything similar. An HTML monkey, that has NO coding experience, can modify JSP's that utilize taglibs. It just produces XML that HTML monkeys view as just more HTML tags.
All in all, having a perfectly designed J2EE website (built with experienced J2EE developers) vs a perfectly designed Perl/CGI website (built with experienced Perl developers) would show that the J2EE website would be easier to maintain and the ability of non-developers to change the design of the pages without any trouble.
The only negative point of J2EE is that its MADE for large projects. If you have a small e-commerce website, J2EE is overkill, and will take too much time to write. Perl/CGI is great for this type of site. But that is where I draw the line.
and 2.) What were the other options????
Remember, Junis (from Afghanastan) was able to bury a Commodore in sand for years (and you know how the heat is out there), dig it up, run it, get on the internet, and download movies with it!
I bet he'd have GREAT advice for anyone that required running a computer in hot, humid environments (although he's more into the "desert" environment than the "water" environment).
Bleh, I didn't ask for ways around it. I have a few computers networked to me "1 computer only" cablemodem (including a linux server dishing out webpages from a custom DNS, using dyndns.org), and I know how to hide it from the cable company. That wasn't my point. I'd like to do this with no strings attached, and not having to worry about the cable company noticing that I'm serving up webpages and stuff, and disconnect me.
I want a service that gives me a static IP address. The best I have right now is to co-lo and its waaay out of my pricerange.
Honestly, my cablemodem is plenty fast enough for me. I'd like to know of a cheap alternative to having a static IP, and allow more than 2 machines to access the internet without anything fancy going on on my end.
... so I just popped in NFL2K2 and showed the hacker who was boss!!
If only the left hand knew what the right hand was doing...
Some record breaking events are wonderful for the human race (first to fly across the ocean, first in space, first on the moon, breaking the sound barrier, etc...). These records open up science to a new realm that all of society will eventually benefit from.
Ballooning across the world (quick rant: honestly, it wasn't "across the world", because he did it on a very southern part of the globe. I can go to the south pole, walk in a circle, and claim I walked around the world!)? Having the highest flying glider?
Surely there's better things that can be done with that money...
If you are having issues with pests in your home, using this (if it even works) is just attempting to cure the symptoms. The real solution is to wash the dishes, clean the house, mop the floors, and find out why and how these things are getting in.
Best prevention? Cleanliness!
BTW - Arguing that you will use this while camping will just make you look dumb.
Yeah, back in the day we used to say "Lets install Linux on a toaster!" and it was a joke.
But now someone actually took it seriously, and look whatcha dun!! You should be ashamed!
My point was, there are MATURE ways of combating the legislation. Write letters to your congressman. Using "mob rule" strategies will just make it worse (they'll go against congress with a "see? This is what we are trying to stop!" attitude, and congress will agree).
Hacking someone that's using hacking as a stepping stone to circumvent laws is just plain stupid.
Yup, the best way to convince a large corporation/government office/anyone over the age of 20, is to act like a child.
Immaturity like this only HARMS what we are trying to do.
Grow up kids.
The FIRST time this asteroid story was listed on /., most Score:5's explained the likelyhood and how it was being blown out of proportion.
Now, we are on the third story, and no one is relaxing, because we all relaxed after a few intelligent astronomy geeks pointed it out the first story. The slashback that pointed out that the astronomy geeks were right is a nice touch, but a THIRD story about the SAME THING that we ALREADY FIGURED OUT, in my opinion, is -1 redundant.
Slashdot and other OSDN sites are considered profitable, right? Owned by publically traded VA Software.
So will slashdot.org become slashdot.com?
This is [...] sponsored jointly by the Center for the Public Domain and UNC.
Sounds like they get money from elsewhere, not profitting.
I'm so glad PA did that. It makes it much easier to discuss how I view the anti-MS audience.
Microsoft's Eric Rudder is this years winning of the "Blatantly Obvious Award" for those that point out the obvious two years after it was first obvious.
This really isn't news. Just MS admitting to it (after everyone else already knew it).
Underappreciated? WE ALL (meaning other occupations) ARE (or at least have people whining about it).
Do you get a paycheck? That's why you get one.
Don't like your job? FIND ANOTHER ONE THAT YOU DO LIKE.
Honestly, very few people deserve their own "day" (like veterans that lost their lives at war, etc...), but sysadmins don't fall into this category.