Yeah dick fucks. I’m gonna drop my pants, bend over, and pray that you DO ram some giant black stick into my ass and pray that maybe you’ll give the ol’ reach around….

Three weeks wasted on trying to get activemq to work only to realize the pile of monkey shit app doesn’t remove dead clients after the tcp connection is broken.

You know, transactional sessions, persistent messaging, fault tolerant brokers all matter a whole-boat-fuck-load of nothing when the broker gladly continues to deliver messages from a queue to clients that aren’t even fucking connected anymore. Way for “deliver-once-and-only-once” jms compliance you ass fuck terd for brain 2″ dick fuck mother fuckers.

I hate every single on of you pieces of shit and would love to break your 3″ necks after kicking in logic blaze’s teeth and pissing and shitting down its throat.

Thanks for wasting 3 weeks of my life fuck offs. Burn in hell, please. do the world a favor.

Since they “became a company”, the maven people have accomplished almost nothing. Archiva is non-existent, continuum is there but dead in the water and the eclipse plugin is completely lame compared to what exists for NetBeans (a truly HORRIBLE IDE).

Now that they’ve gone completely insular it’s almost impossible to see any progress. Sad.

I just interviewed with a company here in the US that has a 45-hour minimum week. No overtime pay, of course. The important thing is that most developers to whom I mention this say things like ‘Well, sure.’ or ‘Like always.’ Sometimes if I prolong the discussion I hear that ‘we are professionals – it isnt a 9-to-5 job !’.

Right – professionals. Because it is well known that real professionals – doctors and lawyers -regularly work unpaid hours for their clients.

(If you’re a software developer, that was sarcasm. Real professionals do not give away free work.)

Anyway, we all know the true story at that US company I mentioned. The real work week is 50-60 hours with random peaks due to crises thrown in by the management exploiting their spineless teams. Right ? Yeah, you know it.

There are all kinds of sweatshops … one of the emerging chestbeater habits seems to be the ‘non-sleeper’ behavior – you know, the lead who sends the team email at 12:45 AM and then is emailing the team for status again at 5:15 the next morning. The kind of dick who pretends that 7AM is a good time for the team standup … because the hours for 6 to 9 PM are more than ample to attend to the needs of your family and your personal health.

Don’t get me wrong; I like the software development business in general. But the work hours, which have always been suspect, seem to me to be getting worse in the last couple of years. Does that have anything to do with the open sores ethic of giving away your work ?

Probably not, but it may be worth considering that the guy doing this is not in fact a professional at all, but a naive young male working as hard as he possibly can – without pay – to make your job and his a clerical dead end … because sometimes people will Look At Him.

All it is correct!

Respectfully yours!

hopefully, to laugh at (loudly) at other Filipinos (or perhaps this particular Filipino) and to dismiss other Filipinos accomplishments easily (“scam” is a little too harsh, don’t you think?) IS an exception. and what is the true Philippine Open Source Culture? living and working in singapore? enlighten me..

fact #1: basic salary of their employees is just average (compared to other software dev’t companies in the philippines)

fact #2: all employees are REQUIRED to work AT LEAST 48 hours a week (note: no overtime pay here folks). can’t seem to think of any reason why they practice that, and they couldn’t give any acceptable reason either.

fact #3: given the amount of money winston got from the gluecode sale, you’d think that he could afford to get a more cozy office with nice furniture. i’ve seen their office, and it could be better.

“the rest of the talented Filipino Java Developers”

You seem to have a hard-on attacking everything Winston is associated with. Hmm, I wonder why. I guess the Filipino sweatshop mentioned in the above article doesn’t have anyone of worth to the open-source scene? Condemning the employees because of the boss? Yeah sure, you know everything don’t you oh great all-knowing one?

GPL Akbar!

They’ve known when to stfu and get things done, when to ask questions – and never done any weird scammy stuff with clients even when other consultants were attempting to do it left and right. (such as one instance where a jsf guy tried to get me to recommend total bs to a client manager in order to get himself more hours on the project…No I didn’t recommend whatever he was selling and really just wanted to punch him in the face.)

I guess you could say I’m just trying to protect people that I’ve got some kind of business relationship with, but what’s right is right…The Virtuas guys are the good kind of devs.(not saying they are all l33t hax0rz, just that I’ve never seen any of them bs’ing themselves/clients/anyone else …so at least they’re honest )