BummerLog

Yet longer tail

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:11:55 +0800

Chris Andersons long tail refers to reaching to goods and services that are nonmainstream. This rather narrowly refers to the small pockets of indie artistes and niche goods. This is but a trivial section of this tail- myopic somewhat. Rather, the developing world has an immense variety orders of magnitude greater.thus i recoin the ‘longer tail’ to demarcate this necessary extension beyond a westcentric (protectionistic) view

shiny code

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:51:14 +0800

shiny code: cleanliness is next to godliness

prophetic words from Peter Schiff on the crisis

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:33:18 +0800

prophetic words from Peter Schiff on the crisis

Microsoft . The new opium.

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:31 +0800

21st century addiction of the East. Even with philantrophic efforts, isnt ms windows but another drug. Just as Expensive And toxic. As people become on the useless bag of outdated operating system features, they start to accept a reality of frequent reboots and sluggish use. Where the only relief comes in the form of the next new version of greater toxicity.

75% of the world's spam??

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:55:44 +0800

75% of the world's spam?? : whew… thank god its gone

fav excerpt from the book

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:55:12 +0800

fav excerpt from the book

Viking

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:31:28 +0800

Recently in tiredness and loss, demoralized by cashflow and project obstacles. i had always struggled with why i had gone into business, the answer came to me in a book today-The viking manifesto by strid and andreasson. So actually in a scandinavian way, i was making a great firm out of BW

making more sense of the madness (semantically)

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:00:48 +0800

making more sense of the madness (semantically)

Dertouzos 2002

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:39:25 +0800

‘the unfinished revolution’Its a pity i never read this book in 2001, the year prior to the authors demise. Prophetic somewhat. It talks about the web, intelligent humancentric computing , outlining many concepts that frankly barely fulfilled to date. In my opinion, we had only really achieved the wide use of PCs and not the high-intelligence, multisensory and true freeflow of information.

Hail to the Obama

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:00:41 +0800

Hail to the Obama

I extend Gates

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:30:53 +0800

its not”It’s Not the Big that Eat the Small…It’s the Fast that Eat the Slow”

its the loud eat the quiet

and the superficial matters that eat real value

broke my asus eee PC heres an MTV for the sadness

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:44:52 +0800

broke my asus eee PC heres an MTV for the sadness

u on-tray-per-nyoh or not?

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:48:01 +0800

u on-tray-per-nyoh or not?

enough code to shoot yourself in the foot

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:05:14 +0800

my main litmus for selecting programming languages is ‘tool best fit for the job’

- within BW we use Flex, AJAX via Dojo, Groovy/Grails ( i hope soon jRoR).

this turns into a problem when people don’t project deep enough their overall needs and go for quick, early, visible gains and face pitfalls later

this is what i call dirty coding and that’s how inadequate languages (like PHP or VB) thrives on, easy for individuals to pick up, meet early needs, skip time-wasting steps like patterns, abstraction, reuse and domain design.

having said that, frameworks have a huge overhead to overcome

- the learning curve < what? i just want to copy-paste code scraps>

- cost and use of extensive toolsets < what? all i should need is a text editor>

- adhering to conventions, configurations < no. everyone else should adhere to my cowboy style>

People -being people- don’t see beyond visible benefits until they eventually have to and pay eventually a larger price - entrenched software

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary ..."

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:09:37 +0800

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

- E Hubbard

Evil Lives On

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:28:00 +0800

Sadly it’s not been much of a rollercoaster since open-sourcing Java, ultimately, Java got big on being strongly fronted by Sun, It had -anyway - always been an open development process , just short of having an OSS licence really…

Harsh reality for most OS projects, the community only gets as far as an interesting hobby and stops short of becoming a viable alternative for the everyday Joe.

Just take how many open source jobs (actual development,not jobs in companies that sell Linux CDs) out there and divide it by the number of contributors - that is a small fraction. I can only extrapolate that many of them to make their day-living developing on bad, proprietary platforms using closed languages.

This is why I feel that Ubuntu is probably the only true contender to Mac &Windows for the same reason, they have real strategy and a real business model.

Much as we try to deny, it sometimes takes a dedicated full-team well-funded team to take it down the final stretch.

2 minutes on getting Groovy-ier

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:17:11 +0800

2 minutes on getting Groovy-ier

bridge

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:56:56 +0800

it’s almost as though half-century of modern computing, enterprise IT had pretty much not changed since COBOL programs running on mainframes.

when software were basic single-purpose programs and hardware simple, it was probably much easier for business domain knowledge to match the effected software. as software development itself matured, it became increasingly difficult to match complex computing concepts to real, operational usage of software.

(popular joked: software development is the battle between people developing better software and the Universe churning out dumber users- so far,the Universe is leading)

Still, as a proponent of software development, we should try to bridge this distance, by meeting in the middle, rather than try to have IT consultants try to ram IT systems thinking (and expensive everyone-loses contracts) into business people disguised as clever acronyms and buzzwords.

IT needs to drop the ego, so do business users - ultimately what is the point of clever code appreciated only by geeky peers, software really only becomes a gem when it can be appraised by a foreign eye.

a semantic web article to share

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:07:21 +0800

a semantic web article to share:

also, check out the interesting feature of PDFmeNot

www.pdfmenot.com

nothing doing

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:55:00 +0800

Paul Graham an investor from Y!combinator recommends that start-ups really should just start and not be worried bout the poor economy and creditcrunch.

that the logic of avoiding this period is no less-twisted than a person with an over-inflated idea hoping that the good economy will guarantee success.

that’s encouraging - - after all, when times were good, it’s not like I get a lot of investors knocking. since I can do only equal or better

that’s a positive, right?

right…

ps:not that my favourite company Yahoo! is doing too great now they got a lot of laying off

pss: don’t sell to the Evil Empire, Jerry…