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Re: Dynamo sucks, or how I learned to stop worrying and love EJB

Russ — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 06:25:00 -0000

Cool grey/white thing on this comment box.

Are you saying that I don't understand the Nucleus and that somehow the reason I don't like Dynamo is because I'm too daft to understand it? I really think the person who doesn't understand Dynamo is you... it seems you've gotten everything down pat from the brochures, but I ask again, have you actually used Dynamo on a big project? With, let's say a team of 8 or 9 ATG Consultants and another set of 10 programmers on a 8+ month project including all parts of the Dynamo infrastructure?

Seriously, have you? If not, you don't know the pain. You can lap up ATG Marketing and find tricks from Anonymous assholes on The ServerSide, but the fact remains it's a horrible platform that's quickly dying and for good reason. The stuff we were doing on this job could have been done in 1/4 of the time and effort using any other architecture out there. You want to support and develop on this non-standard architecture, go for it... it's your career, but take my advice and run.

And I can "admit" to lots of things about Dynamo that don't suck. You missed the fact that the new specs from Sun for Tag Libraries are going to be more similar to droplets, making development of them easier. However, that doesn't mean in general Dynamo isn't a big, bloated, pain in the ass to work with.

By the way, I've worked with the famed Julian at my last job. He was one of those 10 ATG consultants. He's not a bad guy, but I don't want to work with him again either.

Just to reiterate: Dynamo suuuuuucks. Do you work for ATG or something? The only people I've seen that defend this tech are usually employees...

-Russ

Re: Dynamo sucks, or how I learned to stop worrying and love EJB

Russ — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 06:28:00 -0000

LOL....I just checked your resume. YOU DO work for ATG. hahaha, I love it.

Forget what I just wrote... if I could delete it I would.

Good luck (you're going to need it.)

-Russ

Re: Dynamo sucks, or how I learned to stop worrying and love EJB

Russ — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:49:00 -0000

Nice commenting system! This pMachine stuff is pretty nice... I'll have to download it to check it out.

I'll try to make a detailed list of things I didn't like from a technical standpoint and post them. I've been meaning to for a while...

I'll ping you when it's ready. ;-)

-Russ

Re: What we wish the Internet were

Russ — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 17:46:36 -0000

Get a fucking life you hateful fascist.

And get my link off your fucking page. I don't want ANYTHING to do with you. You and I don't agreee on anything, ever. Got it?

Don't you have anything better to say than just constantly ripping down the work of others? I guess not, you fucking hateful warmonger. Please go back into the fucking hole you crawled out of, you fucking elitist dirtbag.

-Russell Beattie

Re: My new gig.

Russ — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:58:52 -0000

Thanks Jeremy! But I'm just an obsessive blogger, not a journalist or editor. Thanks for thinking of me tho. :-)

-Russ

Re: Looking for a job? Weblog required.

Russ — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 06:14:15 -0000

How about this one?

http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/28290306.html

-Russ
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Re: Web 2.0: Mobile

Russ — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 01:04:29 -0000

Urgh! That's exactly what I didn't want to happen. People have been listening to the 3G pipe-dream for years now. I wanted to try to convey the reality that mobile data is here now... Too bad!

Re: What if you show up to vote next Tuesday and election workers say you are not registered?

Russ — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:50:14 -0000

Ummm. You linked to my blog by accident. My post is about the iPod + Video. I'm actually quite interested in the URL you *meant* to include in this post, please update it! :-)

Re: The Guru from Google holds court

Russ — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:36:54 -0000

A misunderstanding of my weblog post, spun by uptight Googlers it seems, is that I decided against a job because I didn't want to sit through the four hour interview. No, I decided I didn't want to work for Google first, then decided I didn't want to go through the interview process because it would be a waste of an afternoon. That was very clear in my post.

-Russ

Re: The Transparent (Shopping) Society

Russ — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:11:50 -0000

I see no technical reason that you wouldn't be able to scan a UPC, or in the very near future wirelessly read the RFID tag, and then do a database lookup using web services from your mobile phone. In fact, most of this would be possible to do today if someone put the pieces together. The question is simply will businesses put their inventory up online. I know that Nokia is already planning on having RFID readers on their phones... so part of this is already in the works.

Personally, I don't think mobile compa rision shopping is going to be nearly as big of a deal as simple mCommerce: While waiting for your oil change, you use your mobile to search through Amazon's DVDs and buy your wife her favorite TV Show Box set for her birthday. Or while waiting in the doctor's office, you finish off your Christmas shopping, etc.

The key thought to what you've written though, is the fact that data-enabled mobiles are a real link from the virtual world to the real world and search may be the glue which holds it together. Up until now, you've been trapped at your desk, and forced to print stuff out before going off and interacting with the world. Now you can be out and about and as you need something, will be able to do a quick search and find the information that you need, when and where you need it.

I had a coworker once who said that he uses the browser on his phone for one thing, and one thing only: settling bar bets with quick Google searches. That right there is a killer app if I ever heard of one. But I've personally done mobile searches to make sure I bought the right printer ink, so there's lots of other examples out there.

-Russ

Re: The Transparent (Shopping) Society

Russ — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:11:50 -0000

-Russ

Re: The Transparent (Shopping) Society

Russ — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:11:50 -0000

-Russ

Re: Happy Birthday Russell Beattie!

Russ — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:23:45 -0000

Umm. Thanks! I'll get back to you in 7 years on being 40.

:-)

-Russ

Re: Are we too Curmudgeonly?

Russ — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:45:23 -0000

Glad to have caught your attention... It was the big smiley face, no? :-D

I think (after a night's sleep and seeing your response) that what I'm really hoping for is simply more enthusiasm. You can be ethusiastically realistic, no? I know you guys love this stuff as much as the rest of us, but you don't show it nearly enough!

I mean, hey, I'm as sick as the next guy of reading the daily "Consumers will love/hate/love/hate mobile video" news stories... But tell me the truth, isn't it *fucking cool* to see live channels streaming to your mobile? 18 months ago taking a VGA picture was the coolest thing and just before that just having color screens was considered cutting edge. This stuff is AWESOME! Don't get caught up in the hype... Analyze what you personally see and hear and feel. An honest voice always gets more readers than forced objectivity.

Okay, that was a little preachy, but you get the idea. :-)

-Russ

Re: Bloglines: Add protected feeds?

Russ — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:04:16 -0000

Did you try doing: http://user:password@www.ex... ?

-Russ

Re: Mowser = Mobile Browser

Russ — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:10:41 -0000

Ahh! So you're the one! I just noticed two memory errors in my logs stemming from vergenewmedia.com... ;-) Looks like my code decided to try to download those videos and covert them (which it can't do) and died trying. What it *should* do is forward along if it doesn't understand the content-type, but for some reason in this case it didn't, tried to load the videos into memory and hit a hard-cap I set on that.

I'll definitely put it on the list and see if I can figure out what the deal is ASAP.

Thanks!

-Russ

Re: Leave Amusing Comment, Get Streamy Invite

Russ — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:53:28 -0000

... because I'm up at 3 a.m., so I might as well check it out. :-)

-Russ

Re: Shut Up: You are not allowed to praise or slam Android until the SDK comes out

Russ — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:40:28 -0000

Amen.

-Russ

Re: Shut Up: You are not allowed to praise or slam Android until the SDK comes out

Russ — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:40:28 -0000

Amen.

-Russ

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Added Disqus Comments

Russ — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:11:45 -0000

Thanks for testing... :-)

Reda - when I think of spam, I think of bots posting 30 links in a row...

Daniel - Thanks for stopping by, the system looks and works great. Keep up the great work!

eeee - No idea why you're not seeing the ads - works for me on various browsers/OS's. Obviously someone is seeing them, because they're clicking on them. :-) And yes, the front page is ad-free as I said above.

-Russ

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Added Disqus Comments

Russ — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:36:40 -0000

Isn't there somewhere else you could test breaking their system, besides my blog?

:-)

-Russ

Re: Using Disqus For My Comments

Russ — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:27:26 -0000

Being already logged into Disqus makes it pretty easy to comment on other blogs as well, which is an unexpected bonus.

:-)

-Russ

Re: Once more upon the commenting breach - The occasional scrivener - Gustaf Erikson's weblog

Russ — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:06:14 -0000

I actually saw you mention it in IRC one day, and it went on my radar... then I saw it again somewhere else and thought, "what *is* that?". Thanks for the tip!

:-)

-Russ

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Mowser WordPress Plugin Available!

Russ — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:28:13 -0000

"I think perception is often more important than honesty..."

Heh. I will start obfuscating and enhancing the truth immediately, thanks for the tip. ;-)

My model is actually *completely* centered around publishers, so I agree that this plugin should be more robust, but it has to start somewhere. This blog is about the process, not always the final result. And yes, it's sort of like watching sausage getting made, but it's a level of transparency I'm comfortable with as it provides me an outlet and a way to get feedback as well.

I'll keep working on it (with the feedback I've gotten so far as a result of this post) and hopefully you'll have more confidence in it in the future. :-)

-Russ

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Temptation in giant net bags

Russ — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:09:49 -0000

eli_d

Nice!!! I hadn't seen that post. Hysterical.

Someone emailed me and said that Ikea may have been getting rid of those balls and/or selling them. He bought some huge bags from his local ikea and filled a kids inflatable swimming pool with them. Which would totally, rock.

-Russ