Status Update

We have some posts in the pipeline now, and will be releasing those as they become ready.

Boy is My Ass Shot Up!

Devastatingly so, over a year since the last post on this Backwater Web Log. Couldn't even get up the gumption to poot out a cursory "ass-shooting" post!

Will this year be any different? Let's start out optimistically, and say maybe. Eschew everything objects, and allow the FP juggernaut to mow you down and assimilate you.

The Years Are Rollin' By....

Just checking in for another year of inactivity on this blog. Been so busy with so many other things, there's just no juice left to squeeze out onto this site.

OPP (Other People's Programming) continues to suck the big one; when will people learn to check for nulls and cover their branches in tests? When will the object-oriented madness be overcome by the sanity of FP (Functional Programming)? Why do they insist on ferreting state away in objects, that have no business being in there to begin with?

Hint: you can find a place for pretty much everything in the Call Stack! Closures make this easier than ever; just think of them as special-purpose objects that last just long enough to "glue" everything together just-in-time, managed by the compiler and RTL, and not by the lifetime of your domain objects!

Enough blathering for now, that should keep everyone satisfied for another year....

Changed the Theme

Changed the Theme. Looks a little more polished, thanks Blogger!

Also cleaned up links in The Gutter, removed dead-link link-enhancement scripts, and removed Digg/Reddit links from post template.

Things load much faster now!

Pre-shooting This Year in the Ass

This July will be 7 years for this blog being active, and sorry to say the last three of which, have little to show in the way of posts, and even less to show in the way of programming-related content.

So, rather than waiting until this coming December, let's get one in now!

Most recently, there has been a flurry of NullPointerException fuckery hurled in my direction, in particular, idiots who don't check for resources not existing, instead forcing everyone to hunt down the source code and trace their lame-ass shit back to see what resource they were looking for.

Yo asswipe: throw new IllegalArgumentException("cannot find resource: XYZ") is what you were looking for! That will give me and everyone else about 30 minutes of our lives back.

Another Year Shot in the Ass

Another year has passed, and from this blog's perspective, it has passed very quietly, since this is the only post for 2012!

One thing is for sure: Java ME has suffered a rousing defeat at the hands of Android. Too bad for Oracle, since when they acquired Sun, I'm sure they were counting on some lawsuit money from Google, to the tune of billions of USD.

In the meantime, there's Windows Phone, which if you are fluent in the XAML/C# tongue, provides a very familiar environment for building apps. MVVM anyone? Yes, Please!! Way way less tedious than building a UI and binding it to a model in Android. Oh wait, Android has no model binding, bummer.

The problem with WP platform is Microsoft took the same lame-ass approach as did Apple, so much for encouraging developers to build apps. What they did encourage is a huge market of root hacks and side-loading bullshit. At least the SDK is free....

End of Another Year

Another year bites it! As you can tell from the sidebar, there wasn't much to say this year; it's been busy at work.

We took out the DLink stuff; their URL finally stopped giving, so it's back to plain old undecorated URLs now.

The new Blogger interface is very nice! It's about time they did something to it.

Happy New Year! Give 'em hell in 2012!

Righthaven More Like DumbF*** Haven

Righthaven's Losing Streak Continues in Colorado

How stupid can they be, not obtaining anything other than a "bare right to sue"? It doesn't take much reading of the US Copyright Act to figure out that is an idiot's course!

Let me sum it up for you, idiots: If you don't own it, you can sue on it!

Oracle is the New "Central Scrutinizer"

One of my favorite Albums!

And this is his opening speech:

Central Scrutinizer: This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to *The Death Penalty* (or affect your parents' credit rating). Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things...and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC! Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution (which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE). ...snip...

Ok now read this and come back.

Just take all that, and substitute "Oracle" for "The Government".

Good-bye, JCP, it was nice knowing you....

Obama bin Laden

Ok, so they aren't releasing any photos of Dead bin Laden, because Obama is still using it for his Screen Saver! How fucking sweet is that!?

Call It A Crap/Wrap!

Well, another year has come-and-gone! It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....

What can we look forward to for next year? More DMCA Copyright Bullshit and IP Trollery, to be sure. More assaults on Fair Use by uptight douchebags who can't stand to see one word of their precious "content" uttered outside their absolute control.

Will it be a Happy New Year for Free Speech? Stay tuned in 2011!

LVRJ Sucks, EFF Rocks!

Democratic Underground Responds to Righthaven Copyright Troll Lawsuit

Have a read on that!

Here is some Free Speech for you (that is, if opinion is still protected speech): Righthaven, You Suck! Las Vegas Review-Journal, You Suck Too! Stephens Media, LLC, Suck The Big One! You Suck So Bad, I'm not even linking to you! Maybe you will scan this blog and try to sue, based on 0% excerpt from your crappy publication. Hell, you sue based on 10%, why not "up" the ante?

But wait, what would you negotiate the copyright to? Oh wait, I mentioned the publication's title....

Here is some more Free Speech: EFF, You Rock! Kick the Shit out of the Copyright Trolls!