(sort of) week in review
Couple of issues to bring up. Firstly I’d like to thank ‘The Gladio’ for his comment on the happy idiot rant. He seems to be one of the few people who really ‘gets’ bileblog. I’m so sick and tired of people endlessly whining about the fact that I more often than not just complain and bitch without providing solutions, fixes, alternatives, or a happier way of life. I wish you’d all bugger off and go find yourself another messiah, because I have no interest in giving you a new religion after smashing your old one to pieces. Why does every criticism have to offer a way out, a salvation? Why can’t I just proclaim something to a pile of steaming dogpoo and leave it at that? Those who claim that it’s easy to criticise and complain need to try doing it for months on end. It’s amazingly difficult.
As for you chiara, spare me the sentimental bright eyed bushy-tailed lovefest. You completely missed the point of my happy idiot rant. The issue is not with people who want to learn, but with people who are convinced they have already learnt, and so their questions lay the fault at someone else’s feet. I’m sure everyone who has developed java professionally has come across people like this. The sort of person who upon finding a bug, will assume it’s a JDK bug before blaming their own code. The sort of person who will complain about how there are no products which solve some problem or the other, conveniently ignoring the fact that it’s an incredibly stupid problem to solve, and should be handled some other way. The sort of people who will feel clever simply by managing to integrate maven in to their build cycle. Those are the happy idiots, the ones who endlessly solve retarded problems in convoluted ways, and pat themselves on the back for it.
The bileblog is a deliberately miserable, petty, mean-minded and harsh place. It’s a very conscious decision to avoid looking at the happy side, and to focus on the negative. If you want happy, go read the rest of the tripe that shows up on javablogs. If you want to find out about how developer X just bought a new PC, went to watch a movie on the weekend, played with his kids, then exercised a bit, you have some very serious problems. Of course equally disturbing is said developer, who somehow feels that this information is worth passing onto countless hundreds of other anonymous people.
Finally, thanks also to Mr Anonymous (what a prolific poster he is) for the link to the softwarereality.com XP articles. I was mildly annoyed to find that they made the same exact points I made, thus rendering my work wholly unoriginal and feeble (more so than usual anyway). Still, it’s comforting to know that I’m not the only person who feels cheated and scammed by XP.
Speaking of the mighty Anonymous, I hereby offer $20 (via paypal or something) to anyone who adds in the ability to show IP addresses for comment posters in freeroller. I get way too many stupid comments (unsurprising, really) and some method of identifying repeat offenders would be nice.
[update]
: Forgot to mention that thanks to a great guy, bileblog.com is now alive, muhahaha. No more complicated freeroller url’s to remember!
August 25th, 2003 at 2:01 pm
Sorry, that was me who posted the link to softwarereality.
August 25th, 2003 at 2:01 pm
I keep thinking….do I want to make people log in to provide comments (which I hate) or do I want to allow anonymous posters….On the whole will it really help you to know that it was some idiot from Texas who posted a dumb comment in your blog? It might be interesting to know that it was the SAME idiot from texas who posted last week, but then again with his 56k modem dhcp garbage…was it the same idiot or two different idiots?
I’ve been enjoying bile blog a little more since you’ve started making SOME attempt to get your facts straight… You’ve nearly started to become humorous… Though I think proprietary software is a better religion… “I have faith that if we hire the cheapest dumbest developers from whichever country has the most lax labor laws and shield their code from public scruiteny, enjoin anyone licensing the software from publishing performance results, that the result will be WONDERFUL!” — Thats all the making for a good religion if you ask me…
August 25th, 2003 at 2:06 pm
fate,
You should know your place. “smashing” the old religion to pieces? No, you’re not Nietzsche old friend. Let’s take a step abck and not get ahead of ourselves. The primary purpose of this blog is entertainment. These “i’m-so-special” posts have no entertainment value. You might think your criticisms of (really all-together easy targets) like maven/jboss/commons* are terribly insightful . They’re not. As you’ve just discovered you rarely say anything that hasn’t been said before. Your posts are relatively amusing though. I think you get the point. It’s time for you to refocus on your primary value proposition and concentrating on your profitable synergies. In other words quit whining like a little bitch.
Also, you might be a bit careful not to protest too much about about people tackling new problems. Some of us enjoy tackling new problems or even reconsidering old ones. Reinventing the wheel can be fun if you’re that sort of person. Others of us are content to sit back and do nothing but whine. Both types of people are important in the java world–but the whiners not-so-much.
And don’t pick on Chiara! That’s like picking on little swedish children. Sometimes the depths of your depravity amaze even me.
- jkk
August 25th, 2003 at 2:10 pm
On the lighter side and a good laugh check out this gem from software reality: the extreme extreme programming.
http://www.softwarereality.com/rumours/story021.jsp
August 25th, 2003 at 2:13 pm
jkk:jkk. Oh and: stfu!
August 25th, 2003 at 2:56 pm
$50 is the minimum.
Just modify macros #showCommentForm. Have $req.getRemoteAddr() added to the text of the comment being submitted.
See http://www.rollerweblogger.org/velocidocs/template-weblog.vm.html for references.
August 25th, 2003 at 3:00 pm
But I like my anonymity…
August 25th, 2003 at 3:48 pm
It never occured to me that people would be so… err, naive, as to actually take half of what you say seriously…
Reading your comments is a bit like having a Dilbert just for the Java community. :-P
August 25th, 2003 at 5:48 pm
since you sited http://www.softwarereality.com , I’m sure you’ll find this
http://www.softwarereality.com/programming/ejb/index.jsp
interesting.
Look who’s looking like an “happy idiot” right now!
August 25th, 2003 at 9:02 pm
Sheesh, all you do is whine!
Didn’t your Mom teach you anything?
Now you’re whining about how hard it is to whine!!
You are truly a complete JOKE!
August 25th, 2003 at 11:53 pm
You want my friggin’ IP number, eh? Fine….it’s always 127.0.0.1
August 26th, 2003 at 1:10 am
And mine is 192.168.1.1. You know, if you have certain brands of routers, that URL might actually work ..
August 26th, 2003 at 2:03 am
It’s great to see bileblog.com. Someone else must have got sick of going to google and wanted to have a beautiful url to type in ;-).
My thanks also go to the “great guy”.
August 26th, 2003 at 4:57 am
Alive, alive… That’s quickly said, Hani. I know you are fond of FreeRoller, to the point of finding the apos bug cute. You said so in as many words.
For me, robustness, ease of use and useful features are paramount, in that order of priority. From this standpoint, FreeRoller has made it to the very bottom of my blog service list.
I’ve never seen a blog hosting mechanism with such poor performance, low MTBF and high MTTR. Not only that, its features obviously are quite few, what with no IP display for instance.
Aside from some emotional reason (say, it’s Java-based), I wonder why on Earth you stay on it! Why don’t you put some actually working solution on bileblog.com for instance? ‘Say, MovableType? Even B2?
August 26th, 2003 at 10:36 am
Freeroller – as a service – is just too unreliable. I know it’s rude to complain about a free service, but still. The wait is aggrevating most of the time, and sometimes I can’t connect at all.
The Roller weblog package itself is not too bad IMO. It’s just that you get the same functionality with MovableType, which is much easier to install on the server (you only need Perl). Furthermore, MT creates static HTML files, which the web server can send directly, rather than run a servlet or script with every page request as Roller does.
Hani, do us a favor and move your site to a web server with Apache and Perl cgi-bin support. There are a lot of those and it’s all you need to get started with MT. You’ll sleep easier knowing your site is not hosted on Tomcat. ;-)