David Brown - Professional category

Will somebody create the IDE that does not suck?

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:49:00 GMT

My nightmare with the use of so-called IDEs (Interactive Development Editor/Enviroment) has come full circle.
I started out some years ago with my first IDE which was like a lot of folks the Eclipse software development tool.
After getting sick-to-death of IBM and WAS (Websphere) and WSAD and RAD 7 and the whole EJB gamut started by Sun Microsystems I switched from Eclipse to Netbeans and Grails. Grails is somewhat bullet-proof as it is 100% command-line driven. I appreciated Netbeans by not requiring the creation of a so-called Netbeans project or even having to import existing Grails projects so the NB IDE could get-control-of-your-project! Netbeans automagically recognizes an existing Grails project in the directory and file browser supplied with Netbeans.
This morning I was presented with a Netbeans upgrade dialog. I feared not because Netbeans had been so reasonable so far in my use of the IDE on all of my Grails project. So, figured why not? The biggest mistake I have made with my development lately is relying on updates of any kind and especially those updates the directly affect my project. Yes, my Grails app is OK only because the Grails developers were smart enough to keep the Grails development machinery on the command-line and thereby not allowing a lot of crap creeping into their development works.
Now, I'm looking a Jetbrains' IDEA I paid $250.00 for a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago I acquired the Jebrains' so-called IDEA and immediately upon launch the highly touted IDE blew-up in my face and crashed.
When I navigate to the various mailing-lists, wikis, forums and chatrooms with my questions about these so-called IDEs all I get is silence or some type of response with the sole intent of aggravating you even more about your situation.
The question remains: if Grails was able to fix CRUD style web dev by removing the idiotically endless configuration of monsters like (shudder) Struts and other XML config oriented MVCs why has not somebody stepped up and developed the IDE that does not suck like Grails does not suck when it comes to tools that perfectly build CRUD web pages?

Corporate America two groups of employees

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:31:00 GMT

In any one company in the U.S. there are two groups of people you will meet:
- Those folks with some content of character
- Those folks with no content of character
The final analysis of the bullet above means if you work in the U.S. you are in one or the other groups of folks as stated in the two sub-bullets above.
What does this really mean? It means that you are either a member of the local company power-clique or you are not a member of the power clique. If you are not a member of the power-clique you can kiss your ass goodbye. It also means that if you are a member of the local company power-clique that you are a member of the latter sub-bullet stated above.

Java Puzzler #1

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:25:00 GMT

Found on: mindlikeasword.com

Search for the webmail MUA

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:17:00 GMT

Two weeks ago or thereabouts I was struck with a very slow Usermin webmail client. I suspect the issue with the my webmail client is there are too many directories.
I have spent several days on a lot of these web-mail projects most of which are ancient. I tried a couple of Java webmail clients but either the project admin/owners were arrogant asses or the project software had no hope of running on my system.
The up-side to everything today was the fact that I was able to clone nullwebmail via my Netbeans IDE and make some diagnostic edits. And, I successfully performed a hg outgoing and hg push using the ssh:// protocol URL in my Cygwin terminal. And, the hgwebdir confirmed all changes as pushed to the remote Linux box. But to my surprise when I opened the file: src/webmail/main.c I discovered their where no changes!?
I sent an email to the Mercurial folks but their SMTPd has a habit of delaying mail. Matt Mackall and company are not very friendly albeit they are running a so-called FOSS project. I admit that I like hg much better than SVN, CVS, PVCS or SCCS. But, getting help is another question.

Today's jobsearch

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:27:00 GMT

My first jobsearch category entry sucks: the recruiter emailed me qualifying the job ad requirements.
Obviously, the potential employer has so many local candidates to choose from that they are not going to consider someone from Texas as this distance is prohibitive from Boston.
I spent the rest of the day fixing all the broken links on the home HTML page. The old https with port: 8543 is gone and a much more reasonably configured blog is installed.
I also worked on the text content a lot and had to re-Gimp/re-PhotoShop one .png image of Text.
Now, when I send out resumes there won't be any doubts in case I get some visitors to my website.