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Google I/O Keynote: The There There
Wow, who are all those journalists who‘ve accused Apple of flimflammery and carnival barker trickery in their public shows? Did any of them attend Goolge I/O? Because it made Apple look like an...
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More Insight into Google's Revenues
Probably seems like I am pretty opinionated and hence, stuck in my opinions. In actuality, I absolutely love to be disabused of long-held notions. Not even sure how I found this Wired article today but...
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Few More Thoughts on Android Studio
Well, I watched the tech session. Unbelievably, in an hour long session, which btw, was really sloppy and poorly presented, there was not a single mention of testing.. !! What year is it?? I thought we...
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Fluent Builder for Constructing Dates
One of the other marooned orphans thanks to Oracle‘s decision to delay the already 1.5 year Java 8 release is the new date and time functions (based on Joda apparently). I know what you are thinking....
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SQURL: Great App for Video
It is so often the case that billions are spent (and ‘earned‘) in corners of the economy and yet obvious innovations are either neglected or consciously suppressed. I cut the cord back in November. A...
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100 Years Since Rite Debuted
Wow, the 29th is the 100th anniversary.I started listening to classical when I was still pretty young. I still remember the first time I heard Rite of Spring. From the opening line (which of course I...
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Programming Language Readability: Expressions
Scala has some things about it that are kind of compelling and a lot that is not. I am a huge believer in avoiding any kind of syntactical shorthands and don‘t get excited by things like hashrockets...
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Google Gag Metastasizing
Ok, folks, I plead guilty to often referring to certain groups and ascribing qualities to all members of said. Bad on me. Wall Streeters are a good example. It wasn‘t all of them who wrecked the...
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Article on Battery Research
We all know that a huge breakthrough in batteries would be the most transformative single event in solving energy. For a while, there was some thinking that room temperature superconductors would maybe...
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Fate of the Web
So I already posted about the VC dude who is waking up to the fact that Google‘s collar and turnstile isn‘t the PlayPlace he thought they promised. The other day, I was looking at Twitter and found a...
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The Dog Barks and the Caravan Rolls On
Wait, I think a suitable modification, or adaptation would be ‘the dog is barking mad, and the caravan rolls on…‘I ran across this article. Don‘t ask me how or why I‘m still receiving Tech Republic...
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File Location Transparency
Watching Steve Jobs, frail and thin, introduce iCloud was pretty cool, because in a lot of ways it represented another huge aspect of what he was best at: trying to relentlessly push for making stuff...
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Quick WWDC Keynote Redux
Lot of good stuff in here, and much of it a complete surprise.It‘s pretty funny, had I done predictions (boring) I would never have predicted half the stuff, but on MANY of the things, I was thinking...
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Impressions of OSX/iOS7
Good design makes a big difference; only an idiot would disagree with that simple statement. But the question of what is design and where does it begin and end has been debated forever. Sadly, it seems...
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Milestone in Software Development: Xcode 5
I have watched 3 sessions since they were posted yesterday that gave detailed coverage of Xcode 5. People, I got my first compiler (Zortech C++) when I was one year out of college. We thought Borland...
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Few Random Thoughts on Design
In using iOS7 for a bit, my biggest problem with it is that the design is in my face, and I am constantly reflecting back on that body snatchers video of Jony Ive explaining the rationale. That‘s...
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Java: Progress Measured in Decades
So Kepler dropped today. I have been writing Akka code lately and was pretty sure there would be no way to use it. I was right. The Scala IDE, a product that only exists as an eclipse plugin, did not...
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Google on Hiring: Big Data No Big Deal
Sorry, but Google has reached the farce stage laid out by Marx in the 18th Brumaire. When I first saw this I thought ‘ok, I‘m kind of curious,‘ then I realized that it was Google talking and...
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Jenkins: Butler Messmaker
I have been reading the Manning book SBT in Action lately. When I first came across SBT a couple years ago, I saw things like the && syntax and wanted to vomit. However, after using it now in a...
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The Command and Control Monoculture
When the experts came out and claimed that Air France Flight 447 was, once again, pilot error, I was a bit skeptical. In part because I had read quite a bit about Flight 587. The copilot apparently...
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Replacing My HVAC System
A lot of people claim that you don‘t need air conditioning in Los Angeles. I have noticed that most of them work in offices all day and come home when the sun‘s about to set. Ok, given those...
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The Why of the Web Debacle
Unless you were asleep yesterday or tending your dental floss crop, you probably saw this blog post, Why Mobile Webapps Are Slow went thermonuclear. And rightfully so. It is not only loaded with...
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Source Code Templating DSL
Ok, so I repeat myself a lot. I like to look at it as a healthy expression of what Freud calls The Repetition Compulsion. If you don‘t have it, you are an infant. It‘s a disease, but it‘s a beneficial...
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Stupidest Post of the Day
Wow, after all that lauding of the why web apps are slow, my spleen vacation didn‘t last long…So I read a lot of stupid stuff this week about how wonderful designers are and how the world is just...
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Another Voice on Bloodsuckery of Web Businesses
Thom Yorke of Radiohead pulled his music from Spotify today and posted a pretty short rant, not unlike the Pete Townshend diatribe I wrote about from Morning Joe: streams are great for making...
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TDD Checklist Shortcut on Mac
If you read Kent Beck‘s book on TDD, he sets forth the idea that developers should work from a little scratchpad of tasks. I like this idea a lot.A big part of his suggestion is that you strike through...
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Witless Android v. iOS Article
It kind of blows my mind that big media outlets routinely publish pieces that are clearly written by people who don‘t even really understand the topic they are purporting to write about. Wait, in the...
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Googs and Mickey Miss
Wait, the Wall Street guys, who apparently swore on whatever their bible is (wait, they don‘t read) that they were going to be all about fundamentals and sound choices after they drove the economy off...
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Few Thoughts on the Readability of Code
Been doing some code lately involving scheduling jobs using Akka. The Typesafe guys did a smart thing and built a simple scheduler into the ActorSystem, so unlike EJB, which took what a decade to get...
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Another Helping of Android Studio
Ok, this time around I am having a better experience, but still feels like riding the scree (to quote Peter Gabriel).Here are some good things:there is testing nowthe automatic preview is pretty...
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The Language of Math
Been reading this book, and finding it really interesting, engaging, and full of great content. However, I also constantly hit little nuggets ground up in the feed that make me not just choke, but spit...
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Death by Fat
Well, a lot of different loose ends have been simmering in a pot together, and some new inputs have come in so this is sure to be a mishmash, but the basic question is we know our technology ventures...
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Ode to the Joy of Play
Been using Play 2 for the last week or so. I have used it before, but this time doing some ui stuff with it (or should say more).This thing is pretty close to ideal. Bunch of likes:the cycle is...
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Bootstrap, We Hardly Knew Ye
Been playing around with Bootstrap 3, which, btw, true to form, is a complete rewrite. I am without shame as a shamer but I do not begrudge anyone a rewrite, and they don‘t necessarily mean that the...
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Android Studio: Third Helping Quite Charming
Was off doing Play for a week and last night decided to boot up Android Studio and pick up a piece I had been working on. Started it and thought right away ‘maybe there‘s an update.‘ Sure enough, there...
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Play: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While burbling along doing my Play project, I came to a pretty simple need: a table with a list of items, then a checkbox for each, and a button at the bottom for ‘Delete Selected.‘ So of course I need...
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Few More Play Thoughts
Like half of the rest of the world, been looking at Breaking Bad again this past week. Girlfriend and I watched the Pilot when it was in its first season, but she didn‘t see the point and didn‘t want...
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The Peddling of H2O
Many a dystopian vision of the future has included the idea that things we took for granted in the environment were eventually taken over by The Corporation and are meted out for money (meaning of...
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Wired's Fascist Vision of the Future
I've bagged on Wired before, for being thoughtless simpletons, and I've lauded them (like for their interesting article about how Google was helping the Jesse Pinkmans of the world peddle their goods...
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As the Android Turns
Wow, this is pretty amazing. Top Android exec splitting, the CEO ditched his wife to start dating the android dude‘s girlfriend. The article doesn‘t comment on the fact that the Android guy is going to...
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Cloudera: OOBE from Hell
Yeah, the open source world is SO much better than those horrible walled gardens where people sell products that they, um, tested and documented, and maybe even tried before they released. In the...
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Debussy's Preludes
I have a tendency to fall into really hard addictions to music. Lately, I can‘t stop spinning Debussy‘s Preludes.This time around, I started to think ‘wow, these pieces really remind me of Prokofiev‘s...
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A Few Thoughts on Code Completion
Before launching into some philosophical musings about what programmers‘ crack addiction to code completion means, a few observations about my path.In 2003, I started using Eclipse. Before that I had...
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The Corrosive Effects of Sloth
Well, it turns out that IntelliJ is not what is really slow, it's Scala. I am kind of a jackass for not having figured that out right away. But this week I was doing some straight Java in IntelliJ,...
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Further Adaptations to Play
So I did some complaining last week that the data binding in Play wanted the attributes of the bound object to be public. Seriously, public variables on objects make hanging a GOTO look like a minor...
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Calling the Java Renaissance
Ah, Wired. Found this article, ironically through Twitter, this morning. Hipsters seem to think being tuned in is the most important thing in the world, and yet so often they sound like the dude who...
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Play's Anomalous Lack
Having completed a first Play project, overall I like it and will probably use it again. That said, the popularity of Play raises some pretty interesting issues about the Java community and who does or...
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Genius Post About Scala
One of the reasons I love Twitter to death. Would NEVER have found this dude's post.If I could have favorited it 10x I would have. Of course, he will be shunned or crapped on for daring to shame people...
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Play's Role in the Stack
So I blogged before about how Play ships with one example app that could really be called modern and somewhat complete, and that app uses Backbone to route Javascript requests (to prevent each request...
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Open Descent into Balkan Gloom
Watched a couple sessions on Java 8 today. One of them was Brian Goetz, and it was pretty awesome. It ended with him saying lambdas were something all the other cool kids were already doing and that...
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