Archive for August, 2006

Timezones suck too.

Monday, August 21st, 2006

I don’t get it. Why do we need timezones anyhow?
Why doesn’t the whole world just run off a 24hr clock, and people just get used to going to work by say, 03:00 and getting home at 12:00, then going to bed around 17:00? Seriously.
If we didn’t have timezones, scheduling would be tons easier. No one [...]

Servlets Suck. Portlets Suck. Web apps SUCK.

Monday, August 21st, 2006

I am so sick of shoehorning “applications” into a presentation model designed for presenting information, not rich interaction with users that I cannot express it in printable language.
Then again, I’m not sure the words exist.
The current state of application development SUCKS.
We’re trying to solve problems that were better solved 10 years ago. This is retarded.
HTML [...]

Contemplating the sanding of trim…

Monday, August 14th, 2006

So this week (Monday – Friday) the fiance is out of town.
This means I have loads of free time in the evening.
This means I’ll be working on the house again.
I need to finish repainting the bathroom, and at _least_ get the trim and new door up in there. I’m probably going to be doing a [...]

I think I’m in love…

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I just finally got around to reading the docs on Java enums (introduced in 1.5… yeah, I’m a bit behind on this one) since this is the first project I’ve been on that’s been in a pure 1.5 environment.
Oh my.
Oh my.
It’s about dang time.
I can’t wait to use this tomorrow. I’m really, really, really looking [...]