Damn, Overgrowth

Sup y'all.

I've been away for a bit due to an interesting business trip. Luckily it's now over. I'm not going to name any names, but don't ever go to Monaco expecting Monaco Telecom to provide internet faster than a 56k speeds. Sure, it is citywide wireless... but it is SO SLOW. If anyone ever wants to study the effects of monopoly on the quality of service that telecoms provide, go to Monaco and try to download anything. I got burned, badly.

But the main topic of my post! It is just a link. If you are not yet aware of what these folks are doing, you really ought to check it out. It's the future.

Bwahahahahaha

This made me laugh so hard. I love this man!

http://java.dzone.com/articles/secret-architects-cabal#comment-23121

Cygwin 1.7 Installation Problem

So, I was hangin' out at work today. And I decided I wanted to have a C/C++ environment up and running, because it looks like I have some C++ development ahead of me soon.

I downloaded and installed the Netbeans 6.8 C++ environment, in the desire to try something new. It expects either Cygwin or MinGW and is pretty well integrated with Cygwin. So I created my little test project, and tried to compile my main.cpp file, which compiled but on the linking stage, OH GOD THE PAIN.

Yes, friends, pain. See, I had not installed the liblstdc++.a file yet. Well, no problem, I will just run the setup.exe and grab them right? Sort of. Since the version is now 1.7 there is a very fun, evil popup that says

Download incomplete. Try again?

The solution is to hit "yes." This brings you back to the mirror server select screen but the key is, your already downloaded archive files are SAFE AND SOUND. There seems to be some sort of bug with the setup.exe file, but if you keep hitting yes and choosing the same exact mirror server, and then just hitting next on the feature select screen, all is well. The setup will only download the files it has not yet grabbed. As a further note, I had to purge my system of any previous Cygwin files and registry entries in order for the install to work.

Neat Way of Looking at Patterns

Haven't really finished understanding this entry. But it seems real good!

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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-eaed9/index.html


Aaaah, spam complete.

JSR 317

So, JSR 317.

Very cool, very awesome JSR. What's cool about it? Well you see, it makes a Java standard of a technology I am already intimately familiar with! So it's really really great!!!

Ok, I was being sarcastic. Whether or not ORM is a Good Idea™ is still not completely settled in my mind. There is a relatively large amount of overhead, within the knowledge that programmers must have AND efficiency. Also, everyone is doing it.

The good news is that the overhead is partially addressed with the new stuff in JPA 2.0, specifically the Criteria API. This API goes a long way to completely replace the Database with Objects in the mind of the Java enterprise programmer, leaving a scarred wasteland of smoking JDBC bodies and tormented souls of DBAs. In intervals divisible by 2 those souls cry out with words that chill the very spine of those who hear them. Words like "normalization," "query efficiency" and "this is not a search engine."

Well to be fair those last two were phrases.

Oh well. Anyway, I am looking forward to Nov 16th, when the JSR is supposed to hit the streets. I mark the date with a shot of rakia, a toast to the people that told me I must take Relational Databases in college, or else risk not being ever hired as a programmer.

I'm back

After relocating to a certain Eastern European Country of questionable repute, I am back to pollute the internet with my worthless blog.

Oh dear.

It seems that this post is a precondition of the significance of the hypothesis that there are humanly inaccessible blogs. http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html