I know I haven't blogged lately; I've been busy.
The magic man in the mail who sends movies offered Ghostbusters last night. Awesome movie. I give it 5/5. What's better then watching a giant marshmallow man tearing apart New York City?
I want a proton pack...
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Sunday, March 11, 2007
GTK+, QT, Motif
I've been a Linux fan for quite a few years back, ever since I read Moving to Linux (first edition; later editions cut stuff out, and he switched to Ubuntu and GNOME. Talk about criminal), but one thing that drives me nuts is that some developers insist on writing their programs in a toolkit that looks/is Motif. There's waay better UIs that look much less 1980, so why is it still being used at all?! Believe it not developers, looks are in fact important in a program.
Please, use a good toolkit like QT or GTK+. Everyone will thank you for it.
Please, use a good toolkit like QT or GTK+. Everyone will thank you for it.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
.NET=Horrible
I got over the flu after only a day, leaving me in a situation where I am able to stew over how awful .NET is. I wouldn't wish .NET on anybody, and the the Geneva convention surely forbids the cruelty that .NET puts on programmers.
.NET was created by Micro$loth to make programming easier and more consistent. In theory this is fine, but man. My experience with .NET programming with VB .NET was hardly smooth, and Micro$loth wants all new Windoze software to be written with .NET.
All I wanted to do was make a simple program that downloads and displays a .rtf file. So I write the program, and it works flawlessly on my machine. So I start up a very small beta program, and send it to a few people with the installer VB .NET gave me. And of course, Micro$loth won't let you make your own installer.
The first person got it up and running without problem.
All subsueqent testers had crippling problems. In one notable case the person tried installing it, and found his version of .NET was too old (1.1 vs. 2.0). So the installer tried installing .NET 2.0, and of course it failed for whatever reason. After manually installing .NET 2.0, it installed, but the program repetitively crashed.
This is not only my problem. When my dad made my mom's veterinary program in .NET 1.1, he was unable to install the program on the reception computer because of flaws in the installer (He did get it installed by spending a whole morning fiddling with it).
In conclusion, Micro$loth is, frankly, a jerk for forcing developers to use a flawed framework.
.NET was created by Micro$loth to make programming easier and more consistent. In theory this is fine, but man. My experience with .NET programming with VB .NET was hardly smooth, and Micro$loth wants all new Windoze software to be written with .NET.
All I wanted to do was make a simple program that downloads and displays a .rtf file. So I write the program, and it works flawlessly on my machine. So I start up a very small beta program, and send it to a few people with the installer VB .NET gave me. And of course, Micro$loth won't let you make your own installer.
The first person got it up and running without problem.
All subsueqent testers had crippling problems. In one notable case the person tried installing it, and found his version of .NET was too old (1.1 vs. 2.0). So the installer tried installing .NET 2.0, and of course it failed for whatever reason. After manually installing .NET 2.0, it installed, but the program repetitively crashed.
This is not only my problem. When my dad made my mom's veterinary program in .NET 1.1, he was unable to install the program on the reception computer because of flaws in the installer (He did get it installed by spending a whole morning fiddling with it).
In conclusion, Micro$loth is, frankly, a jerk for forcing developers to use a flawed framework.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
oog...
Oog...
Me got a flu. I can't really think, so reviewing Ubuntu like I had planned is out.
Rest assured, Ubuntu is trash and will drag Linux down into a pit of horrible stability unless it loses it's momentum.
Oog, logging out.
Me got a flu. I can't really think, so reviewing Ubuntu like I had planned is out.
Rest assured, Ubuntu is trash and will drag Linux down into a pit of horrible stability unless it loses it's momentum.
Oog, logging out.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Book, Inherit the Earth, Math Exam
It was suggested that I re-do my chapters, so I rewrote it, chapters 1 and 2. I've started 3. In other words, major re-write since last post.
I got my math exam. I passed. W00t.
I wrote a spider for Inherit the Earth fans that downloads all the strips and keeps them updated.
You can find the thread with it here.
I'll review some software soon, I promise.
I got my math exam. I passed. W00t.
I wrote a spider for Inherit the Earth fans that downloads all the strips and keeps them updated.
You can find the thread with it here.
I'll review some software soon, I promise.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Life, the Universe, and Everything
I just named this post that because I was too lazy to actually think of something that describes it. Making up for my bad math exam, I got a near-perfect grade on my American Literature final. W00t! The American Government exam was pretty easy, and while I haven't gotten my grade back yet I think I'll do even better then I did on my Literature exam.
In other news, I started writing a novel. Compared to my previous attempts at a novel the detail has gone through the roof. Chapter 1 is 716 words, which is a bit shorter then I would like, but still pretty good for me. It is called "The Death of a Vixen", and here is an excerpt:
She sniffed, and could still smell a human and a dog. A hound. She sniffed again, then listened. They were coming closer. There was no hope now that the human and the dog would miss them in the rain. She would have to try to escape. Grabbing her slumbering kit by the scruff of his neck, she snuck out of the den. The kit recognized the danger and stayed quiet. Crawling over a hill, the vixen listened again, and was disturbed to find that the dog and the man were still drawing nearer. She hurried on. Just a few yards away from another one of her dens, she brushed past some wet branches and a trap abruptly snapped on her leg. Struggling and crying, she dropped her kit who rolled down a rocky hill and hit a tree. Weak and bruised in countless places, he hid behind the inconveniently placed tree where he could watch the proceedings above. As he watched, the hound and the farmer ran up to the struggling vixen. With a smile creeping across his mouth, he triumphantly spoke two words: "Get 'er".
So there it is. Yes, my search engine is still in progress. I just got a python programming book to help me.
In other news, I started writing a novel. Compared to my previous attempts at a novel the detail has gone through the roof. Chapter 1 is 716 words, which is a bit shorter then I would like, but still pretty good for me. It is called "The Death of a Vixen", and here is an excerpt:
She sniffed, and could still smell a human and a dog. A hound. She sniffed again, then listened. They were coming closer. There was no hope now that the human and the dog would miss them in the rain. She would have to try to escape. Grabbing her slumbering kit by the scruff of his neck, she snuck out of the den. The kit recognized the danger and stayed quiet. Crawling over a hill, the vixen listened again, and was disturbed to find that the dog and the man were still drawing nearer. She hurried on. Just a few yards away from another one of her dens, she brushed past some wet branches and a trap abruptly snapped on her leg. Struggling and crying, she dropped her kit who rolled down a rocky hill and hit a tree. Weak and bruised in countless places, he hid behind the inconveniently placed tree where he could watch the proceedings above. As he watched, the hound and the farmer ran up to the struggling vixen. With a smile creeping across his mouth, he triumphantly spoke two words: "Get 'er".
So there it is. Yes, my search engine is still in progress. I just got a python programming book to help me.
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