http://del.icio.us/jaz/swsu http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=93 "What we need is to kick the idiots out, and educate those with less understanding." jaz 2007-03-25T12:03:41Z perspective rants swsu truth http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=682 In this rush to throw all of our applications into a web browser, it seems like we haven’t stopped to ask ourselves why these old rules should apply to this new software medium. jaz 2007-03-15T14:19:31Z flash flex swsu web http://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/12/05/mr-gosling-why-did-you-make-url-equals-suck/ java.net.URL class officially sucks! jaz 2007-02-01T22:23:07Z fun java rants swsu http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/01/how-to-hire-guillaume-portes.html This is a running criticism I have of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML). Its extreme length (over 6,000 pages) stems from it having detailed every wart of MS Office in an inextensible, inflexible manner. This is not a specification; this is a DNA sequen jaz 2007-01-06T17:20:47Z standards swsu xml http://jroller.com/page/fate?entry=gpl_java_who_cares Yet every little fuck and his penis are waggling furiously about how this is a new era of something or the other. Even that perennial turdburglaring hippie Stallman is on board. How low do you have to sink to need an endorsement from him? jaz 2006-11-15T17:03:08Z java rants swsu truth http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2006/11/how_two_hours_c.html We know how programmers think. We know how expensive switching their context is. If Sarah spends just two hours thinking of her old project, she loses a day of productive work on the new one. jaz 2006-11-15T13:51:36Z development project-management swsu http://blog.predius.org/2006/10/05/fucks-per-source-package-and-license/ What language is the most sweared one? jaz 2006-10-11T07:16:17Z development swsu http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000414.html amen jaz 2006-10-02T09:48:47Z development language-wars swsu http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html It turns out there's a good kind of Agile, although it's taken me a long time to be able to see it clearly amidst all the hype and kowtowing and moaning feverishly about scrums and whatnot. jaz 2006-09-29T09:37:11Z development swsu http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=21 With suitable training, the cat's natural pattern recognition abilities can be directed to the task of code style and format checking. The feline preference for playing with balls of yarn manifests in a programming context as a facility with multi-threadi jaz 2006-09-03T11:46:03Z cats development fun swsu http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/strong-weak-typing.html I was personally able to witness a more or less apples-to-apples, multi-year comparison of the strong-typing and weak-typing camps at work in the same production environment. jaz 2006-09-03T08:34:52Z development language-wars swsu http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html People all over the world are constantly building web applications using .NET, using Java, and using PHP all the time. None of them are failing because of the choice of technology. jaz 2006-09-01T15:10:12Z development language-wars swsu http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/07/24/software_development_the_abstraction_dilemma.html Being able to use the String class from your language to achieve your string manipulation goals is essential. Making your application dependent on Apache Strings package just to use a couple of their convenience methods is not essential. jaz 2006-07-25T23:20:57Z software-design swsu http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=168511 Tempted to code defensively? Maybe it's because you're dealing with offensive code. jaz 2006-07-17T15:46:32Z software-design swsu http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Computer+Science.aspx Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science. It represents a quagmire which starts well, gets more complicated as time passes, and before long entraps its users in a commitment that has no clear demarcation point, no clear win conditions, jaz 2006-06-26T20:14:11Z software-design swsu http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000393.html Over the years, I have had the opportunity to work with various code review systems, and I have come to believe that one particular approach works better than the other. Here is what I've learned. jaz 2006-06-22T09:43:38Z development swsu http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html THERE WERE NOTES IN ALL THE MARGINS. ON EVERY PAGE OF THE SPEC. HE HAD READ THE WHOLE GODDAMNED THING AND WRITTEN NOTES IN THE MARGINS. jaz 2006-06-16T08:23:11Z development swsu http://www.dehora.net/journal/2003/08/checked_exception_still_considered_pointless.html Checked exceptions don't help much and are best minimized or avoided. But I don't expect to get much traction on that idea. jaz 2006-06-08T17:43:12Z java perspective software-design swsu http://plasmasturm.org/log/428/ Continuation-based web frameworks are the correct answer to the wrong question. jaz 2006-06-02T10:34:45Z swsu web http://my.opera.com/Vorlath/blog/show.dml/260812 When someone from the future hands me a programming language from the future, I already know it's a kid's project on extinct software design practices. jaz 2006-05-20T20:53:10Z development language-design perspective swsu http://www.artima.com/intv/blochP.html In this interview, Josh discusses API design, extreme programming, code quality and reuse, refactoring, defensive copies trust, forgiveness, immutables, documenting for inheritance or disallowing it, copy constructors, factory methods, the equals method, jaz 2006-05-02T01:06:57Z api-design software-design swsu http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/making-popular-layout-decisions You’re a Web designer, right? You fascist oppressor. jaz 2006-04-24T23:30:31Z accessibility perspective rants swsu web http://wardley.org/computers/web/mvc.html A clear separation of concerns is what is really important, and while MVC is one way of achieving it, it is not the only way. By concentrating too closely on an MVC architecture, it is possible to overlook other important aspects of the system that warran jaz 2006-04-12T20:44:45Z design-patterns software-design swsu http://www.journalhome.com/codecraft/14292/ The space shuttle is a great lesson for people about what NOT to do in engineering. Aside from violating every principle of KISS it basically asked all the wrong questions and as a result came to all the wrong conclusions. jaz 2006-04-11T10:47:56Z perspective science swsu http://www.designobserver.com/archives/012583.html You've taken on a design challenge and come up with a solution that's been widely admired and won you accolades. But a year or so later, you realize you made a mistake. There's something horribly wrong with your design. jaz 2006-04-11T10:11:00Z architecture career software-design swsu http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2006/04/when_friends_an.html I realized mapping my personal relationships of "contact" (acquaintances) and "friend" clashed with the actual utility of Flickr. jaz 2006-04-09T09:10:45Z social-software swsu web http://www.sqlonrails.org/ Rails is a short-stack framework for developing database-contained web applications according to the Model-Model-Model pattern. jaz 2006-04-04T13:23:06Z fun rails swsu http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/o-r_mapping_persistence.html I will begin with a discussion of home-grown vs. off-the-shelf persistence solutions, including areas to consider when deciding between the two, and advice for choosing the best off-the-shelf solution to meet your needs. I will also share suggestions and jaz 2006-04-02T17:35:41Z software-design swsu http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FluentInterface.html The API is primarily designed to be readable and to flow. The price of this fluency is more effort, both in thinking and in the API construction itself. The simple API of constructor, setter, and addition methods is much easier to writ jaz 2006-03-14T12:37:35Z software-design swsu http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/anti-anti-hype.html Ruby's dad could totally beat up Python's dad. jaz 2006-03-07T11:42:02Z language-design language-wars swsu zealotry http://www.benhammersley.com/FCE47259-78BA-4B5E-ABF2-F39B93520C85/Blog/8A127A89-AAD2-4243-8E11-0BDE85AB5394.html It's time to stop talking about how we'd build stuff, and go on and actually do it. Validation porn has had its day. jaz 2006-02-24T19:29:09Z swsu truth web