This is from a young 13 year old computer but whom I'm mentoring.
"Several FOSS groups have created a portfolio of patents that Microsoft violates that are owned by FOSS groups though. So in theory M$ would have to pay a percentage of all of their sales to the Linux community. But since Linux is less popular, Linux would make more money... Because what they have to pay back for each SALE would be tiny. Hah!"
We actually get to choose our government and thereby exercise a fair amount of control. You must be new here. That ceased happening a long time ago. The US political system is only a tiny representation of the true political spectrum.
I hear you, but what can we do to really stop this? Submit more digg posts? Write our congressman? Protest at the FCC HQ? What can we do to really stop this? I'm all ears!
As/if the popularity of Mac's increase, so will their susceptibility to malware. This has nothing to do with poor engineering on MS's part, it's just the popularity of MS that makes winbloz, ie (and even FF) such a target. Casual surfing does have the capability to wack a mac http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/21/033 6255 .
I have been wearing my iPod flash for a necklace for some time - and and old tech buddie said that can't be good for your heart. I scoffed. After reading this article, I'm giving this a second thought. Anyone know just how much EMF or whatnot radiates off of a iPod?
Try breaking down the task into easier to understand layman's terms. You are not the only one this sysadmin has to serve. I work with other software engineers, and we all feed back what we were just asked to each other in simple terms. It's called clear communication. Your high level needs do not directly translate to low level tasks, so who cares about your good review, you obviously do not know how to communicate to IT staff well.
I've been writing Java on the server since the 1.0.2 days. Java on the server is a pleasure for large enterprise applications. Now, Java on the client? What a hellish, insecure, ugly monstrosity. Keep it on the server for large enterprise apps only, where it belongs!
Most home users can not even manage their computer, now you expect them to be able to install, configure and administer a home server? Not bloody likely!
Which brings us to the question of why a major retailler is using wireless in the first place. Major retailers do not attract the best IT staff, it's really cheap and easy to set up WEP, and the moment you get into WPA 2 and a Radius server it becomes a more complex, expensive and administrative-heavy issue to deal with. I say, run wires, baby! Wireless is just a insecure easily DOS'able crap technology!
Ah, you woke up! I've been awake for the last 2 days coding! Rock star, baybeeee!
But seriously, especially this last post of yours, you are right on the money. I was just telling a client today that this project was going to be 75% meetings, design, and product/business analysis, 20% testing and 5% coding. I bring a MBA with me to these meetings who can listen and talk. We are helping the fix processes that this business adapted around a product they have been using, and are trying to write them a new system that maps to their real business processes. We are trying to set them free buy figuring out what they really need.
I tried your advice (honestly) and listened more and talked a lot less - but they though I was sleeping. They WANT me to interject, provide advice, really mix it up with them. They WANT me to step over the line and shake things up. And this is a traditional finance firm. They tried it the old way for years - and they keep getting screwed or need to adapt to some crappy salesforce.com, peoplesoft, interaction, some other turnkey product, or some custom system with limited stability or use. Instead, we are building them a custom product that fits their biz needs exactly that actually works.
An who cares if they eat you alive or talk about you behind your back. What matters is not your ego or balls, but can you get the job done, can you really help these people, can you make a difference, do you really care about what you are doing? That's passion, bub, and sometimes whipping your metaphoric cock out during a meeting is inspiring for everyone.
As a rock star coder, I do not tell companies what they need. I listen really carefully first, ask a lot of questions for clarification second and build solutions based on their needs third. And yes, you are right, at time companies have framework requirements, but they end up paying a LOT more and get a " spaghetti code " system that is even more expensive to maintain. I am not a rock star coder cause I satiate my ego, I'm a rock star coder cause I build systems that really help people based on a careful process of analysis of THEIR needs, not mine.
Thanks again, I'm really humbled by your depth of emotional intelligence, it's really help me a great deal.
When your specifications reach over 2000 pages, you need one small team to set the architecture, and then several small teams to handle each sub application. When you have one large team of average coders "set loose" to work within a generic framework like Struts or any of the Ajax frameworks, you are shooting yourself in the foot delivering average quality applications. When you build you own biz-specific lightweight set of libraries along with solid proof of concepts for your sub teams, you are much better off, can develop faster and get higher quality. Large companies do NOT "humble agile coders" like you and your team. They want rock star coders who are architects in their own right.
Right, thanks for your insight and your daughters as well. I see you are teaching her a lot about charm that will serve her will in life.
What I'm saying is, a small team on senior coders do not need the crutch of a framework. And you will get a better product, lighter more agile JavaScript for Ajax (CSS/Javascript custom coded per the parents post), and faster delivery time.
Am I the only one who usually finds frameworks to be pointless for serious web development? No, you are right on. I build code for fortune 10's and other very large entities. I am part of a small elite team of Java architects who work fast. Java, yea, we use a very bare-bonus MVC utility library. But overall, we have proof of concepts that the rest of us repeat to ensure that all of our code is consistent as if coming from one developer. Then we pier review our code. Then run it by security scanners. We then beat it all up (especially ajax stuff) in QA. Then release. It works.
For Ajax, especially when you want to win on the evil triad of Firefox, IE 7 & and Safari, custom coded CSS/Javascript using the simple AJFORM library seems to be the best way to work fast and win on the client.
Thats a small elite team; when you have a large project with a great number of average developers, this kind of development breaks down and then you need the crutch of a framework. But even then, a average developer can do some REALLY bad stuff within a framework. Any framework. Moral: small senior teams that use solid libraries beat out large average teams with frameworks any day.
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Damn, I meant computer NUT. *exits stage left*
This is from a young 13 year old computer but whom I'm mentoring.
"Several FOSS groups have created a portfolio of patents that Microsoft violates that are owned by FOSS groups though. So in theory M$ would have to pay a percentage of all of their sales to the Linux community. But since Linux is less popular, Linux would make more money... Because what they have to pay back for each SALE would be tiny. Hah!"
I hear you, but what can we do to really stop this? Submit more digg posts? Write our congressman? Protest at the FCC HQ? What can we do to really stop this? I'm all ears!
As/if the popularity of Mac's increase, so will their susceptibility to malware. This has nothing to do with poor engineering on MS's part, it's just the popularity of MS that makes winbloz, ie (and even FF) such a target. Casual surfing does have the capability to wack a mac http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/21/033 6255 .
I have been wearing my iPod flash for a necklace for some time - and and old tech buddie said that can't be good for your heart. I scoffed. After reading this article, I'm giving this a second thought. Anyone know just how much EMF or whatnot radiates off of a iPod?
As far as I can tell, the software industry is only getting *better* at copy protecting their software.
Try breaking down the task into easier to understand layman's terms. You are not the only one this sysadmin has to serve. I work with other software engineers, and we all feed back what we were just asked to each other in simple terms. It's called clear communication. Your high level needs do not directly translate to low level tasks, so who cares about your good review, you obviously do not know how to communicate to IT staff well.
I'm talking more poor applet security than poor Java desktop security. Java 6 makes Java *applications* sizzle. But for applets...
5) 2006 hall of fame!d =4396719
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1) Poor auto-update features for client-side JVM (People do not tend to update their Java client JVM)
2) A vulnerability in the JDK or Java plugin may move all your clients into the attackable surface
3) Older JVM's (in the past) could force the application to use an older vulnerable JVM if installed
4) Stuff like java.lang.Runtime().getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe")
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/759996
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17981
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_i
Intesting tidbit:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434001
PS: Consider taking http://www.sans.org/ns2007/description.php?tid=44
I've been writing Java on the server since the 1.0.2 days. Java on the server is a pleasure for large enterprise applications. Now, Java on the client? What a hellish, insecure, ugly monstrosity. Keep it on the server for large enterprise apps only, where it belongs!
He's Dead, Jim!
Most home users can not even manage their computer, now you expect them to be able to install, configure and administer a home server? Not bloody likely!
Whitesmiths style? God help me! Kernighan & Ritchie ALL THE WAY BABY!
if (in_array($greatest_software, $web)) {
greatestSoftware = Google;
echo "Period.";
}
... that you are now a part of.
Ah, you woke up! I've been awake for the last 2 days coding! Rock star, baybeeee!
But seriously, especially this last post of yours, you are right on the money. I was just telling a client today that this project was going to be 75% meetings, design, and product/business analysis, 20% testing and 5% coding. I bring a MBA with me to these meetings who can listen and talk. We are helping the fix processes that this business adapted around a product they have been using, and are trying to write them a new system that maps to their real business processes. We are trying to set them free buy figuring out what they really need.
I tried your advice (honestly) and listened more and talked a lot less - but they though I was sleeping. They WANT me to interject, provide advice, really mix it up with them. They WANT me to step over the line and shake things up. And this is a traditional finance firm. They tried it the old way for years - and they keep getting screwed or need to adapt to some crappy salesforce.com, peoplesoft, interaction, some other turnkey product, or some custom system with limited stability or use. Instead, we are building them a custom product that fits their biz needs exactly that actually works.
An who cares if they eat you alive or talk about you behind your back. What matters is not your ego or balls, but can you get the job done, can you really help these people, can you make a difference, do you really care about what you are doing? That's passion, bub, and sometimes whipping your metaphoric cock out during a meeting is inspiring for everyone.
Especially if you can actually deliver.
As a rock star coder, I do not tell companies what they need. I listen really carefully first, ask a lot of questions for clarification second and build solutions based on their needs third. And yes, you are right, at time companies have framework requirements, but they end up paying a LOT more and get a " spaghetti code " system that is even more expensive to maintain. I am not a rock star coder cause I satiate my ego, I'm a rock star coder cause I build systems that really help people based on a careful process of analysis of THEIR needs, not mine.
Thanks again, I'm really humbled by your depth of emotional intelligence, it's really help me a great deal.
When your specifications reach over 2000 pages, you need one small team to set the architecture, and then several small teams to handle each sub application. When you have one large team of average coders "set loose" to work within a generic framework like Struts or any of the Ajax frameworks, you are shooting yourself in the foot delivering average quality applications. When you build you own biz-specific lightweight set of libraries along with solid proof of concepts for your sub teams, you are much better off, can develop faster and get higher quality. Large companies do NOT "humble agile coders" like you and your team. They want rock star coders who are architects in their own right.
Right, thanks for your insight and your daughters as well. I see you are teaching her a lot about charm that will serve her will in life.
What I'm saying is, a small team on senior coders do not need the crutch of a framework. And you will get a better product, lighter more agile JavaScript for Ajax (CSS/Javascript custom coded per the parents post), and faster delivery time.
Thank god I get paid to CODE and not SPELL. After some peer reviews, I'm ready to jump off pier, I swear.
For Ajax, especially when you want to win on the evil triad of Firefox, IE 7 & and Safari, custom coded CSS/Javascript using the simple AJFORM library seems to be the best way to work fast and win on the client.
Thats a small elite team; when you have a large project with a great number of average developers, this kind of development breaks down and then you need the crutch of a framework. But even then, a average developer can do some REALLY bad stuff within a framework. Any framework. Moral: small senior teams that use solid libraries beat out large average teams with frameworks any day.
...does it run Linux? Oh wait...
Is it just me or is this page crashing firefox, causing slowdown, or otherwise doing you harm? Weird...