Comments on: Sun Microsystems Can Kiss My Big Ol’ White Butt

By: Sean O'Hare

Sean O'Hare — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:52:11 +0000

@Carps

I did come back, albeit by accident. That’s a nice sombrero. You should give up on the cigars though, they aren’t good for you.

Nice GoogleAd for Java tutorials today.

By: Carps

Carps — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:38:22 +0000

I *would* slag you off… only that meant almost nothing to me!

By: Sean O'Hare

Sean O'Hare — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:22:17 +0000

I know I’m a bit late to this thread, but I’m annoyed because there wasn’t one comment in favour of Java.

Yes there are still people using Java and I am one of them. I used to be a Delphi enthusiast mainly because I hated C/C++. The supposedly cross platform libraries were no such thing, code becomes littered with #IFDEF conditionals and configuration management a bloody nightmare.

The reason that people have problems developing cross platform using Java Swing is because they don’t understand layout managers. If you don’t like AWT or Swing then try SWT. No reason to give up on the language.

If you don’t want notification of Java updates then they are easily turned off from the Java Control Panel.

Which brings me to MS Windows haters, which most people seem to be. Java development platforms (e.g Eclipse) offer an Open Source alternative to MS developer options which are truely awful.

I’ve said my piece, and probably won’t come back here so feel free to slag me off.

Sean

By: Carps

Carps — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:22:12 +0000

I think I love you, Clive.

By: Clive

Clive — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:49:48 +0000

I’m not quite sure how I managed to end up on a swear-blog that isn’t wholly devoted to politics. I could tell you which site’s link I followed, but I refuse to believe it matters. His site has enough traffic already.

In my experience, the single most annoying aspect of Windows is the notification balloon, with its petulant demands for attention. For example, the first time you insert a USB flash drive:

1. Plug+Play detects the presence of a new piece of hardware.
2. It identifies the physical USB drive.
3&4. Likewise for the logical drive.
5. Autorun starts looking for porn.

All these tasks generate a balloon, which must be clicked or left to expire before the next balloon pops up. Only after the fifth balloon do you see the Autorun dialog box, with yet another close box to click.

At this point I’m thoroughly hacked off, and ready to kill the balloon tips altogether:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307729

This also avoids the daily grind of Java updates.

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By: Carps

Carps — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:31:32 +0000

Bonus points for coining the word “Javangelists”

By: David Gillies

David Gillies — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:25:10 +0000

I remember trying to implement a secure client-side email gateway applet using Java back in 1997, and bleeding from the eyeballs. The ONLY compelling reason for using Java back then was the BSD socket wrappers which let you do real client/server stuff. AWT was a pathetic joke, and trying to get a version of Swing that actually did what it said (i.e. run cross platform) was a nightmare. I plotted dark fantasies of torture and mayhem against the Javangelists.

The very instant I learnt about XMLHttpRequest I realised with profound gratitude I would never need to wrestle with this appalling bag of bollocks ever again. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.

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By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:26:42 +0000

Yea that’s what I meant, just worded badly!