He's a sociopath alright. He doesn't get what responsibility is. You get a severely retarded child, he's your life's work, that's the way it is. To think you have a choice isn't human.
Groovy is fine and this is just more of that I guess, but although I like grails, I am Mr. static. I get code completion, errors discovered before my users, and I am not sure what the difficulty with the C++ syntax is. Things like groovy closures etc look different but I think are hard to maintain and reuse. I even precompile jsp to avoid user discovered issues.
Wave was a dumb idea because it was not finished and totally separated from all the tools used today. The features in wave all belong in other tools, not clumped together in something that was less than all other tools.
For example annotating documents in the wave way. Very nice idea for google docs. Not good inside wave where the editor was crude. So a new feature inside junk, or a new feature inside a very good tool.
Also google has some off idea that we want conversations all glued together, and that is stubbornly shown in gmail where you have to look at huge threaded views instead of individual replies. This is fine for some but many businesses hate it and it mars communication. Luckily I read one of the new higher ups is finally changing that feature.
Finally the day I saw the wave presentation and I saw that in place character by character editing, I said, that's a developer toy, not practical. Just because something is possible doesn't make it useful! People hate the idea of that document editing playback too, how could they think that was a good thing? Another gee look what we can do, but is as desirable as acne! "this is an crappy great idea". That kind of playback is not really what people want. It's like someone spying on you as you type. Creeped out users.
Agents swallowing what, a dollar? Commissions are rare, most travel sites are not making anything on flights at all except if they have a service fee, it's all in the hotels and other services.
Impossible because the airlines "play" with the inventory all the time for marketing purposes and other reasons. When you query airlines for availability you don't get seat counts you get a number from 1-9 that is at best a hint.
Also with all the traffic that books and cancels flights, the inventory thrashes around all the time. So you can't get it perfect but you can try to manage the failures, which aren't so bad because you can usually offer an alternative.
ITA has some stuff that will surprise you, I can't say what it is but I certainly am not surprised google wanted it. It will blow you away, those guys know what they're doing and it's far nicer to work with than sabre that's for sure.
The religious arguments of ye old days, this reminds me of.
I wish he would just think like a businessman and provide flash so more ipads can be sold. The app store has plenty of apple approved, slowly responding, poorly written, battery sucking applications, developers don't need flash for that.
And guess what Steve, the _web_ was written for pc's and mice, the touch argument falls flat there as well.
We will see how this holds up as flash appears on all the other mobile devices and runs fine.
Similar deal, 1.5 each way. If I did't do it 2 days a week I wouldn't be there, I'd be working closer to home, so it's mutual benefit. Even if close by, when you're a producer at least part of the time (in my case coding, documenting etc), you can get stuff done without interruption.
Measure product not hours. Plus even when we're all in office we communicate a lot electronically (im, email docs) because that leaves an record.
Use log4j, and use the levels you can set. It depends on what you need, but I use info for audit trail kind of stuff.
And for performance put conditionals around logging for debug and other cpu hits.
You can write to syslog using log4j too, for a nice central backup. I don't know where all this chatter about vm's and disk being a bottleneck come from, I have never seen that, it's just sequential writing and I do gigs of it, no issue. But if it is, redirect to a server made to store it.
People so much in love and applauding vista forget about xp's beginnings which were fare more rocky. Then it was going from a non nt to nt kernel, a fare more radical step. Things took even longer to iron out drivers and all, from what I recall.
Vists ahould take less time since they aren't moving that far up the tech ladder I agree, but this is the way it is. My frustration with vista is not having a good way to report bugs and see they have been reported. I like sun, I report java bugs and can easily find out if they exists already and read comments.
I think if ms had an open bug system like sun it would do a world of good, especially if we could see what bugs they are targeting for releases. Maybe it exists somewhere but I don't know about it.
I put vista on a new machine and a lot of the negative observations and assumptions about it seem to be crap, maybe by people that haven't installed it but repeat the "they" comments, as "they say it's a memory hog"
I ran xp with 2gb, and now vista. Vista with this configuration is a lot snappier, loads and boots faster than xp with the same apps I run, gaming and all. Admittedly I did turn off the system restore which really needs going over unless you like the sound of hard drive maracas.
Maybe it stinks in 1gb, but so did xp for what I run. From what I see most people doing new builds are going 2gb anyway and many are up to that right now on current boxes.
Having anything in a live project linking externally is insane! I never understood how developers can risk this.
We use maven, use dtd's schemas wsdl etc. Much of the wsdl and other files refer to online areas. We download these and alter the references to be local. Otherwise we would have a build fail because of an internet issue, which is just nuts.
Same with maven, we have our own local repository where we keep a subset of what we use. Again same situation. In these cases this is just for building, I can't imagine doing this on a live site. This can especially go for externally referenced javascript... local copies are your friend.
No he's not the only one. Frameworks and design patterns are some of the most abused "tools" ever. Maybe you do a prototype, but when you hit a limitation you can spend a lot of time on learning how to customize and extend the framework.
The other problem I've had is revisions. Spring particularly was painful. Developer A needed a fix. The version with the fix changed something fundamental (not compiler detectable, something like calling order), and things break. Tough to manage.
Give me a good collection of isolated parts. Hibernate, xdoclet, things like that. Far more leverage there I think.
"Media Matters posted the video and transcript on its Web site and sent an email blast to several hundred reporters, as it does nearly every day."
A big push even though the media didn't respond instantly, not really the lone blogger scenario. I wouldn't consider any of these big sites blogs anymore in the old sense of the word, blog now only means the output format of a site.
It's pretty simple, the two dominant browsers now are no longer broken and can actually do this!
I remember trying to make nice tabbed pages, and all kinds of other widgets without using applets or activex. But alas ie and netscape differed a hell of a lot and netscape was extremely broken in many areas of this kind of rendering.
Now ie and firefox are the top dogs and they both work.
It shouldn't bother me but it still irritates me when I read articles about apple "inventing" something else. This isn't even apple's fault, it's just the odd fanbase they have.
I am not sure what's different here. You pay with a credit card and get no paper receipt. That's better? And wireless, how does that help the customer? For all I know my local walmart's card reader is wireless, who knows, who cares?
Anyway in my state (and most others) it would be illegal to make a sale without a paper receipt with the return policy also give out.
Remember, anything done as an amateur can't be commercial, so it's really not feasable that these networks could hook up to the internet or otherwise have outside access. Rick
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He's a sociopath alright. He doesn't get what responsibility is. You get a severely retarded child, he's your life's work, that's the way it is. To think you have a choice isn't human.
Groovy is fine and this is just more of that I guess, but although I like grails, I am Mr. static. I get code completion, errors discovered before my users, and I am not sure what the difficulty with the C++ syntax is. Things like groovy closures etc look different but I think are hard to maintain and reuse. I even precompile jsp to avoid user discovered issues.
"XP runs a hell of a lot faster on older hardware" How old? Just upgraded a 1gb amd 3200 single core and it does way better with win7.
Wave was a dumb idea because it was not finished and totally separated from all the tools used today. The features in wave all belong in other tools, not clumped together in something that was less than all other tools. For example annotating documents in the wave way. Very nice idea for google docs. Not good inside wave where the editor was crude. So a new feature inside junk, or a new feature inside a very good tool. Also google has some off idea that we want conversations all glued together, and that is stubbornly shown in gmail where you have to look at huge threaded views instead of individual replies. This is fine for some but many businesses hate it and it mars communication. Luckily I read one of the new higher ups is finally changing that feature. Finally the day I saw the wave presentation and I saw that in place character by character editing, I said, that's a developer toy, not practical. Just because something is possible doesn't make it useful! People hate the idea of that document editing playback too, how could they think that was a good thing? Another gee look what we can do, but is as desirable as acne! "this is an crappy great idea". That kind of playback is not really what people want. It's like someone spying on you as you type. Creeped out users.
Not any more in this country, rare. You can't be an "insider" if you think otherwise.
Wait till you see what ITA does with google, QPX is great but they will do better.
Agents swallowing what, a dollar? Commissions are rare, most travel sites are not making anything on flights at all except if they have a service fee, it's all in the hotels and other services.
Impossible because the airlines "play" with the inventory all the time for marketing purposes and other reasons. When you query airlines for availability you don't get seat counts you get a number from 1-9 that is at best a hint. Also with all the traffic that books and cancels flights, the inventory thrashes around all the time. So you can't get it perfect but you can try to manage the failures, which aren't so bad because you can usually offer an alternative.
ITA has some stuff that will surprise you, I can't say what it is but I certainly am not surprised google wanted it. It will blow you away, those guys know what they're doing and it's far nicer to work with than sabre that's for sure.
The religious arguments of ye old days, this reminds me of. I wish he would just think like a businessman and provide flash so more ipads can be sold. The app store has plenty of apple approved, slowly responding, poorly written, battery sucking applications, developers don't need flash for that. And guess what Steve, the _web_ was written for pc's and mice, the touch argument falls flat there as well. We will see how this holds up as flash appears on all the other mobile devices and runs fine.
Similar deal, 1.5 each way. If I did't do it 2 days a week I wouldn't be there, I'd be working closer to home, so it's mutual benefit. Even if close by, when you're a producer at least part of the time (in my case coding, documenting etc), you can get stuff done without interruption. Measure product not hours. Plus even when we're all in office we communicate a lot electronically (im, email docs) because that leaves an record.
Use log4j, and use the levels you can set. It depends on what you need, but I use info for audit trail kind of stuff. And for performance put conditionals around logging for debug and other cpu hits. You can write to syslog using log4j too, for a nice central backup. I don't know where all this chatter about vm's and disk being a bottleneck come from, I have never seen that, it's just sequential writing and I do gigs of it, no issue. But if it is, redirect to a server made to store it.
People so much in love and applauding vista forget about xp's beginnings which were fare more rocky. Then it was going from a non nt to nt kernel, a fare more radical step. Things took even longer to iron out drivers and all, from what I recall. Vists ahould take less time since they aren't moving that far up the tech ladder I agree, but this is the way it is. My frustration with vista is not having a good way to report bugs and see they have been reported. I like sun, I report java bugs and can easily find out if they exists already and read comments. I think if ms had an open bug system like sun it would do a world of good, especially if we could see what bugs they are targeting for releases. Maybe it exists somewhere but I don't know about it.
I put vista on a new machine and a lot of the negative observations and assumptions about it seem to be crap, maybe by people that haven't installed it but repeat the "they" comments, as "they say it's a memory hog"
I ran xp with 2gb, and now vista. Vista with this configuration is a lot snappier, loads and boots faster than xp with the same apps I run, gaming and all. Admittedly I did turn off the system restore which really needs going over unless you like the sound of hard drive maracas.
Maybe it stinks in 1gb, but so did xp for what I run. From what I see most people doing new builds are going 2gb anyway and many are up to that right now on current boxes.
Having anything in a live project linking externally is insane! I never understood how developers can risk this.
We use maven, use dtd's schemas wsdl etc. Much of the wsdl and other files refer to online areas. We download these and alter the references to be local. Otherwise we would have a build fail because of an internet issue, which is just nuts.
Same with maven, we have our own local repository where we keep a subset of what we use. Again same situation. In these cases this is just for building, I can't imagine doing this on a live site. This can especially go for externally referenced javascript... local copies are your friend.
No he's not the only one. Frameworks and design patterns are some of the most abused "tools" ever. Maybe you do a prototype, but when you hit a limitation you can spend a lot of time on learning how to customize and extend the framework. The other problem I've had is revisions. Spring particularly was painful. Developer A needed a fix. The version with the fix changed something fundamental (not compiler detectable, something like calling order), and things break. Tough to manage. Give me a good collection of isolated parts. Hibernate, xdoclet, things like that. Far more leverage there I think.
"Media Matters posted the video and transcript on its Web site and sent an email blast to several hundred reporters, as it does nearly every day." A big push even though the media didn't respond instantly, not really the lone blogger scenario. I wouldn't consider any of these big sites blogs anymore in the old sense of the word, blog now only means the output format of a site.
It's pretty simple, the two dominant browsers now are no longer broken and can actually do this! I remember trying to make nice tabbed pages, and all kinds of other widgets without using applets or activex. But alas ie and netscape differed a hell of a lot and netscape was extremely broken in many areas of this kind of rendering. Now ie and firefox are the top dogs and they both work.
It shouldn't bother me but it still irritates me when I read articles about apple "inventing" something else. This isn't even apple's fault, it's just the odd fanbase they have. I am not sure what's different here. You pay with a credit card and get no paper receipt. That's better? And wireless, how does that help the customer? For all I know my local walmart's card reader is wireless, who knows, who cares? Anyway in my state (and most others) it would be illegal to make a sale without a paper receipt with the return policy also give out.
The only reason I know as so well, is that I was a very nervous novice, and had to send it often when I was trying to read my scribbling! rick
Maybe they do know it, and mean "wait" till you read this!
Remember, anything done as an amateur can't be commercial, so it's really not feasable that these networks could hook up to the internet or otherwise have outside access.
Rick