Craig yawn: Guest entry
Another anonymous guest contribution! This time from some poor schmuck who evidently took all leave of his senses and attended a talk by Craig Mclotsofwordslikepoopooandwaawaabutendinginploppy about…you guessed it, more web guff.
Craig McBlahblahan is talking now. And talking. And talking. And talking.
Surprisingly, he’s offering a fairly complete history of web development, walking through servlets, JSP, etc. It’s really good, except it’s all stuff that A) people hated, which is why they came up with alternatives and B) everybody knows, which is obvious when you consider how they all came up with alternatives and posted them to sourceforge/codehaus/java.net/jirajirajira. It’s the same talk in fact that Craig has been giving for the last 3 years.
So now Craig is explaining navigation models. He’s one of the leaders in this space, and now I understand why no explanation of navigation for the web does anything other than suck. It’s not like he’s wrong. It’s like he’s boring as hell, and his monotonous droning is calculated to put everyone to sleep before they can write down that he kinda sucks.
On the other hand, maybe he’ll make such an impression on people that they’ll stay away from Shale in droves - and that can only be good. The talk is in fact so boring that there literally is nothing at all worth saying about it. The code he shows is too small, the demos are paltry and pathetic, and the content faintly insulting.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:55 pm
you guys remind me of the goth kids at school who think everything is so dreadful and whine about how your ass hurts from sh*tting bats all day at the conference.
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:37 pm
You’ve obviously never had to sit through one of his talks.
March 24th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Hey, it HURTS to shart bats all day ! That’s wahy I don’t go to conferences anymore.
Well, that, and the fact that so much of them takes place while the sun is up.
Bastards.
March 24th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Well, I’m not there this year, but I can tell you that you don’t see the sun for days at the conferences in Vegas :-)
You go to the conference for lunch, then hang around for some afternoon sessions, then dinner, then start (or continue) drinking till 3-4AM… repeat…
April 10th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
< < navigation models. He's one of the leaders in this space >>
Holy Hopping Asshats ! There’s a ‘SPACE’ for Web navigation models ? Is it anywhere near the SPACE examined during cavity searches ?
Is there a SPACE for keyboarding ? It’s more complicated AND more useful …
Sorry, bad day. I’m visiting Flagstaff, and the villagers seem a little … uh, dry, out here. I miss Igor.