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Friday, 11 October 2002

I think that Dave is onto a good idea here - but his image is broken (unless I'm not mentally translating that velocity macro correctly). Basically as soon as software price exceeds $5k, usability and quality decreases markedly - perhaps in order to justify the large price? If it was easy to use and cost you $50k - you'd think it was easy to make, no? 3:40:00 PM  comment []      Ravioli Code. A co-worker emailed me the Complete Pasta Theory of Software. (83 Words) [The Fishbowl] Aha! It all makes sense now and we can draw some useful extrapolations from this: EJBs are more like canneloni code then. They're nicely encapsulated, but just too damn large. Modern J2EE programming is like lasagne, the different tiers are separated by layers of meat. 3:27:13 PM  comment []      Lyric of the day: "Please tell me why... the car is in the front yard... and I'm sleeping with my clothes on... came in through the window last night... and you're gone." (Lit - My Own Worst Enemy) 3:24:03 PM  comment []      Rickard has some strong thoughts about Floyd's blog relaunch. So, it finally happened: TheServerSide.com has been relaunched in a multi-vendor cluster! Wohoo, J2EE is portable, and in a cluster with multiple vendors no less. Exciting, isn't it? I agree with some of the thoughts personally, but not others. Yes - it is exciting to me that they have a cluster running one J2EE app across multiple servers. But no, this is not a cluster. It's just a central database. There is no contact (AFAICS) between the two servers apart from a central database! What's the big deal with that? As for being a waste of time and a total marketing exercise? I have to agree. I'm sure they're not running TSS as a charity, or even running this portability thing as an 'experiment' - it's all financially driven. Do I care? No - not really. Would I prefer they put in more features useful to me? Certainly. Number one is a user rating system - TSS has more trolls than slashdot. Floyd - if you're listening, here are some simple improvements that would take literally less than a day to do: give us an RSS feed! put in a real, Lucene backed search engine stop opening all links in a new window Those 3 simple things would get me going back to TSS more. Threaded commentary, user rankings and other more complex things would be useful - but these 3 would take minutes to add. 10:11:58 AM  comment []      Google RSS. Google News to RSS is a brilliant hack, and quite clearly violates Google's terms of service ("no automated querying"). Enjoy it while it lasts. (135 words) [dive into mark] Would you pay for RSS from Google? I would. At least $10 or $20 a year. 9:46:02 AM  comment []      commons sql. BTW I don't think I'd recommend hsqldb to anyone unless its just for temporary data used by unit test cases. It only stores the statements executed, not the data. So startup time can take a long time if you use it for more than a day. I know Jason works on Axion, but I'd have to say the above statement is bollocks. I've used hsqldb databases ('script files') with tens of thousands of records that start nearly instantly. For development speed it is a kickass database. 9:39:53 AM  comment []      Jason's wife has started a blog and one of the first things she wonders if he will lose street cred with his programmer friends. It's all mighty amusing really Sounds like you opened a big can of worms there Jason. Actually, I'm wondering if that would somehow harm his street cred with other programmers... that he has a girl who talks about his penis. and this gem (which I'm not sure I agree with - being a man and all) So anyway... I guess this will be more the girl's point of view. Such as why men don't seem to understand that life isn't a porn flick. There is such a thing as sex that lasts too long with too large a penis. 9:36:26 AM  comment []