The BileBlog

It’s been a while since any hats have been handed out, and so it’s time to remedy that dire situation. Before we get to the crowning ceremony though, some updates and suchlike and so forth.

First to Jason Bell, the J2SE editor at JDJ (and a what a stellar credential THAT is), who seems to have missed the gist of the freeroller vs javablogs entry. The idea here Jason was to do a user-centric AOP style comparison. It was about comparing crosscutting concerns and aspects of the two systems (haha!). Y’know, identifying the aspects and discussing the different implementations. I fully realise that the two systems do not perform the same function.

Thanks also to Matthias (who I still don’t like, but gotta give credit where credit is due) and Ara, for both having intelligent things to say about my criticism of xdoclet. I’m always surprised when someone responds rationally and doesn’t just respond with the same amount of rudeness I dish out.

I’ve also added a search box and a bileindex of the last 60 entries. This should enable quicker and more convenient access to bileage, saving you the effort of flailing about helplessly trying to find exactly why maven, commons-logging, tibco, commons-lang, maven, xdoclet, jboss, websphere, Fred Grott, javablogs, freeroller, or pretty much anything else sucks.

Also, a minor correction. Greenspun is a fair bit richer than I suspected. I guess that makes him a rich and famous moron.

Now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. The reason you trawled through the boring crap above…I give you your new village idiot! The winner is…Rick Ross!

Rick didn’t work hard for this award, it must be said. His stroke of genius though was manifested in one seemingly innocent and simple action. Yet, this action was so evil, so insidious, so stupid that it earned him a village idiot hat on the spot.

For months now, Gerald Bauer has been twitching uncontrollably on the javalobby forums. Gerald, as everyone knows by now, is in essence a paranoid brain-damaged gimp. His posts basically resulted in many replies and responses (or in Rick Ross speak, traffic), consisting mostly of people pointing out what a moron Gerald is, and by association, how idiotic javalobby is.

Ricky’s genius solution was to spin off Gerald’s lunatic ravings into a forum of its own. On the surface, this seems like a good idea. Gerald gets to spray his unique brand of spittle out of harm’s way, like he does on everything else he touches. This way the frontpage of javalobby would remain unsullied by his nonsense, and could remain focussed on the other stupid discussions that have been its hallmark.

Imagine my surprise though when I go to javalobby for a giggle, and see that Gerald’s forum now has its own little box on the right hand side. Yes, above javablogs, above all other content, were the deranged ramblings of a basketcase. Stunning.

Later on that day, that box went away thankfully. Still, the image has been burnt into my memory, and it is not one I can forget or forgive easily. The forum itself consists of absolutely nothing more than our dear little Gerald posting merrily, then replying to himself endlessly. It’s a little scary, a little disturbing, but mostly it’s very obscene. He’s even starting posting product announcements (can I have my own forum on javalobby where I get to talk to myself, Rick? Can each of my friends?) What a dismal place Gerald’s head must be.

Rick, let me explain something to you. Not all traffic is good. I’ll draw an analogy to illustrate the problem. Now and then, theserverside.com was in the habit of posting .net stories. Now, these did generate more traffic, and the threads invariably had very many posts. Most of these were angry and irate ones, pointing out how irrelevant .net stuff is, and how it is an inappropriate topic for a j2ee website. Your Bauer friend is the exact same thing. The reason he gets traffic is because his material is offtopic, irrelevant, and nothing more than flamebait trolling. It is not, by any stretch of the imagination ‘lively’, ‘interesting’, ‘insightful’, or ‘worthwhile’.

Still, the cosmic balance is somewhat restored, as so far,as promised, I have deleted 3 or 4 comments that Bauer made here. I can only hope he keeps commenting with irrelevant pimping of his pitiful material so I can keep deleting.

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