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It's both cool and depressing to find your own code when searching for examples to use in a talk. Guess I can't say "Everyone does this!"… |
@jtinsky Printer software is a great example of market failure: people usually buy based on DPI/$ without considering software quality |
Daily economic note: the rate for a hotel within walking distance of MacWorld will be $30/day less than across the bay was for WWDC. |
Reading Landon Fuller's back experience sharecropping for Apple: http://tinyurl.com/6c4elm |
About an hour into trying to host a .war on WebLogic. I'd blame Java thinking but really it's just BEA not having a clue about real software |
Processing in Java - and reminding myself just how much the language design discourages good coding practices. |
Having worked around the JSP design WTFs (which is still better than ASP.Net and LINQ flakiness) I'm on to Oracle bind variable quirkiness |
Nothing like using JSP to understand why serious developers fled to Rails, Django, etc. Mmm - ThreadDeath and unescaped output. PHP3 much? |
Nothing like using JSP to understand why serious developers fled to Rails, Django, etc. Mmm - ThreadDeath |
Being very pleasantly surprised by how much better NetBeans+Glassfish is than .Net - and that's before adding jRuby into the mix! |
Registering a MacRumors.com forum account specifically so I can tell someone how to disable the "Epson Print Monitor" crapware. |
I should be used to it but I'm still shocked by the degree to which people who love Jesus advocate torture. Spare me from your followers |
Explaining to Oracle's enterprise support that log files are chronological and that things which start 10 min afterward are rarely the cause |
Being called by the country's "premier telemarketer for arts organizations". One step better than, say, being the premiere puppy-kicker? |
Migrating my TextMate bundle copies the shell-wonkish way: http://pastie.org/331495 |
Wondering how long we have before SnapShots.com burns their VC money and deprives the browsing public of their crimes against usability |
How often do you walk out of an enterprise architecture meeting saying: we're keeping it simple & focused? |
Walking past a somewhat flatulent school brass ensemble on the green |
Wishing more people understood that we joke about everyone being late for meetings as a bad tjkng |
Listening to a song I barely played this decade - and missing the period when foreigners complained about American *cultural* imperialism |
