You are not using YUI. YUI exactly what you are asking for. YUI is a libary, not a framework and it does exactly what you are asking for. (I also am kind of down on frameworks, good for RAD, not great for scaling full on apps)
Look into YUI Dom, Event and Connection. Lightweight, cross browser libraries that solve problems for you. DOM addClass, removeClass and getElementsByClassName are key. Event has great add/remove listener that helps you centralize managing events. YUI connection is kick ass ajax, etc, etc. Hit up developer.yahoo.com and enjoy.
We use these in production. On a site that gets ten million page views a day.
Now, YUI widgets...not the best thing ever and kind of heavy...but the libaries rock.
More and more corp. apps are moving to intranets. These days your average person in an enterprise needs a web browser, an im client and a mail client. It really doesn't matter what you have as your os. Sure windows machines are cheaper. I don't do corp IT so I have no idea how hard any of this is to support. But I do work in a large enterprise and macbooks are taking over from windows and the various unix desktops that developers use. Designers here use macs or windows, depending on their preference, coders get a unix desktop and a windows or mac laptop, depending on preference. Because nobody needs to run some corp app anymore, its all in the browser. Sales people use a web app. Finance uses Excel (cross platform) everyone gets email via imap...the fact is microsoft's ultimate fear has come true: the internet has made OS pretty much irrelevant. ( i hear a lot of corps have legacy VB apps and various SAP front ends that require windows. sucks to be you guys is all I can say).
Do you want to do *real*.NET programming anywhere? Just kidding, of course. But the answer is that companies don't usually just buy the cheapest crap they can. Everyone in my company has a laptop. Currently it is an HP, but recently we have the option to get a macbook pro instead. The macs are taking over because people like them. And happy workers is a good thing. In silicon valley the market for web developers is super tight and offering perks like macbooks is a good recruiting tool. And $1800 for an MBP (bulk rate) is a lot cheaper than a 5% higher salary.
The trouble with colonizing space is there is almost no economic benefit. Why would I send a ship away that would cost trillions when my reward, if there is any, is minimum 10 years away (assuming there is anything useful at alpha centauri and somehow you can travel.98 lightspeed)? More likely it would cost me many hundres of billions, if not trillions to develop an interstellar spacecraft, an investment I am unlikely to ever recoup. People upthread have made the comparison to "sailing days" when there is in face no comparison. The risk of sailing to asia was very high, but the cost was not anywhere near as high. Also asia was not completely unknown, the rewards were known. At and at most your were talking years to recoup your investment, not centuries. It is very hard to invest in something that will not reward you inside a human lifetime.
This is why its a good idea to avoid "hot" companies and industries. They will pay you less and work you harder. I would rather be paid for my work in dollars rather than prestige.
My team is going to be migrating 600 servers from bsd to RHEL in 07...and I know we are part of a trend. I think a lot of people are moving from Solaris et al to linux but still want support.
Yahoo makes money. Lots of it. That's what they do great. that is why Yahoo isn't dying. Also they get 500 million unique users a day on the world's most popular web site. Something is being done right...
No shit. What an asshole. He says a bunch of things that make sense: focus, eliminate internal competition, etc, etc. Then out of his ass he pulls "cut 15% of the workforce" uhhh...why? The company makes a lot of money, the margins are very high (as reported by yahoo finance) so why fire people? Just so the stock goes up some points and Brad can buy a bigger house? God how do these people get in these positions? And wow is saying shit like that going to be good for morale over at yahoo. If someone high up in my company said something like that I would feel just a little bit worse about my company...
In reply to a very successful person--there are other jobs in computer development. Games is insanely competative with pay, benefits and job security that is way, way low at the entry level by and large. A recruiter gave me good advice once: games sounds cool to everyone, but it is brutaly hard work and you'd better be damn sure its what you want to do before you go into it. Also silicon valley needs developers! there is a shortage of good people out here that know the web. We want you and we won't make you beg, I promise.
Ugh. This is the problem about the entertainment industry as a whole. Passion for games? Whatever. When I hear "passion" I know it means "long hours low pay" I think professionals should be paid for doing good work, not how passionate they are about it. A good attitude and enthusiasm for the work? sure. But passion? please.
I think a good rule of thumb is that if an industry is hard to "break into" avoid it. If every job has hundreds of applicants you can be sure that there will be ten that are qualified and would be great hires. So the people that get actually hired start to get selected based on insane, irrelevent issues like their passion or their willingness to work for free or near free just to "break in". When the people hiring you have all the power you are going to get screwed. My job right now, I perform a service. I do the best job I can and in exchange the company pays me money. That is the whole deal. And frankly, I love that situation.
I say don't do it. The game industry pays less and works you harder. The fact that everyone wants in makes it pretty exploitive. (read the stories of life at EA). I tried for a while, gave up and now I am a web monkey, which pays well, is really fun and I can always just play games. And the fact is that people don't shred my resume or tell me I need to take work for free or grovel or whatever to get in. The big companies (google, yahoo et al) are begging for more people. My team has four openings we can't fill. A competent c++/java program would make $80k+ and work (gasp) 40 hour weeks doing pretty fun stuff. If everyone wants in you are going to get screwed. Just my opinion.
In regards to #2, our (fortune 500) company has just migrated around 8,000 users off exchange and onto imap+ a home rolled web calendar system. Word on the street is that even including the cost of developing the calendar we saved millions of dollars. Yes, people complained a little, but outlook is still available. The fact is that nobody really needs active directory and exchange. I think that people are a little attached to it, but people will migrate off it means millions of dollars saved.
It depends where you live. Libertarians actually spoiled a few races this year. Also, I think you are wrong about libertarians being more mainstream. They only really are in the rural/suburban regions of the west. In cities their policies don't play too well.
Ipods have a one year warranty. If you want to make your life easier, tell your clients to go here: http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/. You just type in the serial number, describe the problem and an empty box will arrive in a few days. Put your ipod in the box and a new one will arrive in five days or so. (they try and repair the one you sent. If they succeed they send it to the next person with a broken one or sell it as refurb). This process takes two weeks at most (and is free). I don't know what possible reason you would have to wait three months, unless Apple is just shafting best buy. I wonder, what kind of fool would call the geek squad when their two day old ipod breaks? The thing is 100% under warranty. Word to the wise: if you buy any product that is covered under a manufacturers warranty, call the manufacturer, not best buy. (not counting RMAs from newegg. They rock)
Hey, why do you even care? Newsflash: marketing == propoganda. I mean, why does this even shock you? And why are you so personally offended by the ipod/mac? Who the f cares what other people use? I like macs, not using any right now, but I like them. I don't watch any commercials, so I can comment on apple's adverstising, but I like OS X and i think the hardware is decent and the price seems reasonable. Also, what games are available for mac really isn't the most important criteria for a lot of people. But I suspect you will one day realize that computer choice isn't a religion and its not a personal insult. And most people aren't shocked that companies make ads that aren't just an honest description of the products merits.
It was a clunker for the end user (huge, loud with a bad ui). No one cares how easy/hard things are for developers. VB.net is really easy to develop for...
Worse still, the only people with the time and inclination do this kind of thing (share songs,movies,chat,etc) with four people in wi-fi range are going to be middle & high school kids in class. And the schools aren't going to let them bring them to school.
Microsoft will cope with the problem the same way it always does: It will "embrace and replace." The company will come out with its own distribution of Linux within the next three years...Microsoft Linux will feature proprietary "enhancements" that make it better than other versions of Linux. This incompatibility on the one hand and feature superiority on the other will reproduce the current difficult choice between Linux and Windows Server...
So I would take what he says with a grain of salt....
God I hope myspace is dying, but don't ask me to predict its future. I know its VERY popular with the 18 set. Is the zune really the MySpace of music players? I guess it is possible, but I highly doubt it. This article seems to buy the hype that web 2.0 is somehow transformative. That somehow the magic of online communities has revolutionized the way 18s communicate or something. Yes, myspace is very popular with the teenagers. They like being able to communicate with friends and they REALLY like the fact that its basically a rompus room with no supervision. They like posting songs and pictures on their myspace page (just like stickers on your folders or patches on your backpack). But I don't think this fad is some sort of tidal shift in the attitude of the young that apple has missed the boat on. I'm sure kids would love to be able to pass songs to each other on their ipods or zunes or whatever. They don't get that with zune. If the zune was a pocket pc with ev-do/hspda and a decent interface that allowed text messaging, song sharing, image sharing and a myspace/youtube like online experience...which it may someday, this could just be the start. I can see that working. Myspace succeeded more from network effects than from the merits. Everyone is on myspace because everyone else is. The benefits of zune would require a lot of kids to have this product at once, the experience and features beyond an ipod would need to be compelling and entrance would need to be easy. This thing will cost $250...most kids don't have that cash to drop on something like that. Only if microsoft can make this a must have will they kids start buying, and to do that they need to offer more than sharing a song with four friends in the same room.
Many, if not most, of the problems with the us government would be greatly reduced or eliminated by a change to a proportional election system in the house and federally financed elections. But that is NEVER going to happen. The people who make the rules benefit from the system as it exists. Legal corruption makes sure the laws always benefit well funded interest groups. Uncontested elections leaves house reps unaccountable to their districts. And senators spend their time giving things away to their big donors, talking big(looking at you, McCain and Graham) and then, when it counts, they refuse to take a stand on anything in case it endangers their job. In the end we are stuck with entrenched politicians without any principles at all beyond relection.
This system is broken. No one is serious about fixing the real problems this country faces. And we are powerless to stop them. The mainstream left has little choice but to vote for democrats that won't stand up for their supposed principles, the christian right votes for people that talk the talk but use their votes for giveaways to big money, and the libertarian right is stuck voting for big government authoritarians because at least those people talk about reducing the size of government (they've had five years to do it and they've made government bigger) We're screwed!
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You are not using YUI. YUI exactly what you are asking for. YUI is a libary, not a framework and it does exactly what you are asking for. (I also am kind of down on frameworks, good for RAD, not great for scaling full on apps) Look into YUI Dom, Event and Connection. Lightweight, cross browser libraries that solve problems for you. DOM addClass, removeClass and getElementsByClassName are key. Event has great add/remove listener that helps you centralize managing events. YUI connection is kick ass ajax, etc, etc. Hit up developer.yahoo.com and enjoy. We use these in production. On a site that gets ten million page views a day. Now, YUI widgets...not the best thing ever and kind of heavy...but the libaries rock.
More and more corp. apps are moving to intranets. These days your average person in an enterprise needs a web browser, an im client and a mail client. It really doesn't matter what you have as your os. Sure windows machines are cheaper. I don't do corp IT so I have no idea how hard any of this is to support. But I do work in a large enterprise and macbooks are taking over from windows and the various unix desktops that developers use. Designers here use macs or windows, depending on their preference, coders get a unix desktop and a windows or mac laptop, depending on preference. Because nobody needs to run some corp app anymore, its all in the browser. Sales people use a web app. Finance uses Excel (cross platform) everyone gets email via imap...the fact is microsoft's ultimate fear has come true: the internet has made OS pretty much irrelevant. ( i hear a lot of corps have legacy VB apps and various SAP front ends that require windows. sucks to be you guys is all I can say).
Do you want to do *real* .NET programming anywhere? Just kidding, of course. But the answer is that companies don't usually just buy the cheapest crap they can. Everyone in my company has a laptop. Currently it is an HP, but recently we have the option to get a macbook pro instead. The macs are taking over because people like them. And happy workers is a good thing. In silicon valley the market for web developers is super tight and offering perks like macbooks is a good recruiting tool. And $1800 for an MBP (bulk rate) is a lot cheaper than a 5% higher salary.
The trouble with colonizing space is there is almost no economic benefit. Why would I send a ship away that would cost trillions when my reward, if there is any, is minimum 10 years away (assuming there is anything useful at alpha centauri and somehow you can travel .98 lightspeed)? More likely it would cost me many hundres of billions, if not trillions to develop an interstellar spacecraft, an investment I am unlikely to ever recoup. People upthread have made the comparison to "sailing days" when there is in face no comparison. The risk of sailing to asia was very high, but the cost was not anywhere near as high. Also asia was not completely unknown, the rewards were known. At and at most your were talking years to recoup your investment, not centuries. It is very hard to invest in something that will not reward you inside a human lifetime.
This is why its a good idea to avoid "hot" companies and industries. They will pay you less and work you harder. I would rather be paid for my work in dollars rather than prestige.
My team is going to be migrating 600 servers from bsd to RHEL in 07...and I know we are part of a trend. I think a lot of people are moving from Solaris et al to linux but still want support.
Yahoo makes money. Lots of it. That's what they do great. that is why Yahoo isn't dying. Also they get 500 million unique users a day on the world's most popular web site. Something is being done right...
They have made a shitload of money. That's what. Yahoo is by all accounts very, very profitable.
Wow...that is a lot of words that totally don't say anything.
No shit. What an asshole. He says a bunch of things that make sense: focus, eliminate internal competition, etc, etc. Then out of his ass he pulls "cut 15% of the workforce" uhhh...why? The company makes a lot of money, the margins are very high (as reported by yahoo finance) so why fire people? Just so the stock goes up some points and Brad can buy a bigger house? God how do these people get in these positions? And wow is saying shit like that going to be good for morale over at yahoo. If someone high up in my company said something like that I would feel just a little bit worse about my company...
In reply to a very successful person--there are other jobs in computer development. Games is insanely competative with pay, benefits and job security that is way, way low at the entry level by and large. A recruiter gave me good advice once: games sounds cool to everyone, but it is brutaly hard work and you'd better be damn sure its what you want to do before you go into it. Also silicon valley needs developers! there is a shortage of good people out here that know the web. We want you and we won't make you beg, I promise.
Ugh. This is the problem about the entertainment industry as a whole. Passion for games? Whatever. When I hear "passion" I know it means "long hours low pay" I think professionals should be paid for doing good work, not how passionate they are about it. A good attitude and enthusiasm for the work? sure. But passion? please.
I think a good rule of thumb is that if an industry is hard to "break into" avoid it. If every job has hundreds of applicants you can be sure that there will be ten that are qualified and would be great hires. So the people that get actually hired start to get selected based on insane, irrelevent issues like their passion or their willingness to work for free or near free just to "break in". When the people hiring you have all the power you are going to get screwed. My job right now, I perform a service. I do the best job I can and in exchange the company pays me money. That is the whole deal. And frankly, I love that situation.
I say don't do it. The game industry pays less and works you harder. The fact that everyone wants in makes it pretty exploitive. (read the stories of life at EA). I tried for a while, gave up and now I am a web monkey, which pays well, is really fun and I can always just play games. And the fact is that people don't shred my resume or tell me I need to take work for free or grovel or whatever to get in. The big companies (google, yahoo et al) are begging for more people. My team has four openings we can't fill. A competent c++/java program would make $80k+ and work (gasp) 40 hour weeks doing pretty fun stuff. If everyone wants in you are going to get screwed. Just my opinion.
In regards to #2, our (fortune 500) company has just migrated around 8,000 users off exchange and onto imap+ a home rolled web calendar system. Word on the street is that even including the cost of developing the calendar we saved millions of dollars. Yes, people complained a little, but outlook is still available. The fact is that nobody really needs active directory and exchange. I think that people are a little attached to it, but people will migrate off it means millions of dollars saved.
It depends where you live. Libertarians actually spoiled a few races this year. Also, I think you are wrong about libertarians being more mainstream. They only really are in the rural/suburban regions of the west. In cities their policies don't play too well.
The cynicism of the libertarians is what will protect us from their policies.
Are small pieces of wood known for their stock pumping?
They send you a new/refurb immediatly to replace it, they don't try to repair your specific ipod.
Ipods have a one year warranty. If you want to make your life easier, tell your clients to go here: http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/. You just type in the serial number, describe the problem and an empty box will arrive in a few days. Put your ipod in the box and a new one will arrive in five days or so. (they try and repair the one you sent. If they succeed they send it to the next person with a broken one or sell it as refurb). This process takes two weeks at most (and is free). I don't know what possible reason you would have to wait three months, unless Apple is just shafting best buy. I wonder, what kind of fool would call the geek squad when their two day old ipod breaks? The thing is 100% under warranty. Word to the wise: if you buy any product that is covered under a manufacturers warranty, call the manufacturer, not best buy. (not counting RMAs from newegg. They rock)
Hey, why do you even care? Newsflash: marketing == propoganda. I mean, why does this even shock you? And why are you so personally offended by the ipod/mac? Who the f cares what other people use? I like macs, not using any right now, but I like them. I don't watch any commercials, so I can comment on apple's adverstising, but I like OS X and i think the hardware is decent and the price seems reasonable. Also, what games are available for mac really isn't the most important criteria for a lot of people. But I suspect you will one day realize that computer choice isn't a religion and its not a personal insult. And most people aren't shocked that companies make ads that aren't just an honest description of the products merits.
It was a clunker for the end user (huge, loud with a bad ui). No one cares how easy/hard things are for developers. VB.net is really easy to develop for...
Worse still, the only people with the time and inclination do this kind of thing (share songs,movies,chat,etc) with four people in wi-fi range are going to be middle & high school kids in class. And the schools aren't going to let them bring them to school.
God I hope myspace is dying, but don't ask me to predict its future. I know its VERY popular with the 18 set. Is the zune really the MySpace of music players? I guess it is possible, but I highly doubt it. This article seems to buy the hype that web 2.0 is somehow transformative. That somehow the magic of online communities has revolutionized the way 18s communicate or something. Yes, myspace is very popular with the teenagers. They like being able to communicate with friends and they REALLY like the fact that its basically a rompus room with no supervision. They like posting songs and pictures on their myspace page (just like stickers on your folders or patches on your backpack). But I don't think this fad is some sort of tidal shift in the attitude of the young that apple has missed the boat on. I'm sure kids would love to be able to pass songs to each other on their ipods or zunes or whatever. They don't get that with zune. If the zune was a pocket pc with ev-do/hspda and a decent interface that allowed text messaging, song sharing, image sharing and a myspace/youtube like online experience...which it may someday, this could just be the start. I can see that working. Myspace succeeded more from network effects than from the merits. Everyone is on myspace because everyone else is. The benefits of zune would require a lot of kids to have this product at once, the experience and features beyond an ipod would need to be compelling and entrance would need to be easy. This thing will cost $250...most kids don't have that cash to drop on something like that. Only if microsoft can make this a must have will they kids start buying, and to do that they need to offer more than sharing a song with four friends in the same room.
Many, if not most, of the problems with the us government would be greatly reduced or eliminated by a change to a proportional election system in the house and federally financed elections. But that is NEVER going to happen. The people who make the rules benefit from the system as it exists. Legal corruption makes sure the laws always benefit well funded interest groups. Uncontested elections leaves house reps unaccountable to their districts. And senators spend their time giving things away to their big donors, talking big(looking at you, McCain and Graham) and then, when it counts, they refuse to take a stand on anything in case it endangers their job. In the end we are stuck with entrenched politicians without any principles at all beyond relection.
This system is broken. No one is serious about fixing the real problems this country faces. And we are powerless to stop them. The mainstream left has little choice but to vote for democrats that won't stand up for their supposed principles, the christian right votes for people that talk the talk but use their votes for giveaways to big money, and the libertarian right is stuck voting for big government authoritarians because at least those people talk about reducing the size of government (they've had five years to do it and they've made government bigger) We're screwed!