FOSS is communistic and will fail accordingly. One Governing body will ALWAYS fail in light of a free exchange of ideas and the resulting competition.

Don't think so? Get a history book and get your read on. Suck it freetards.

Here endith the lesson.

I have a love hate relationship with FF. The plugins are great. But it is a ram and CPU WHORE.

This is what FF does when I surf on my 2.8 gig P4 laptop. See all those EXTENDED periods where the proccessor is pegged? This is me clicking on links on standard web plain jane web 1.0 html pages.

So this is the crown jewel of open source?

Is it me or is something very, VERY wrong here?

If you spend money for the sole reason of impressing someone (other that a potential mate) you are an idiot. You are putting other peoples needs and opinions above your own.

IF their opinion matters more than your own.. you are making yourself their bitch.

Open Source is starting to get on my nerves.

I love open source about 90% of the time. But FF and Eclipse are turning into a bloated sacks of fark that makes MS's worst bloated sack of fark look like notepad.

Let me see.... Right now FF is using 450 megs of ram and Eclipse is @ 358 megs.

A browser using 450 megs of ram? I close out all but one browser window and it is still using 450 megs. Open what? Suck what?

If a site has a flash video (like Youtube), FF pegs the processor of my 3 yr old (1.8 gig P4 - 1.28 gig ram) laptop and grinds it to a farking halt. Unusable.

Flash videos also pegs my 2.8 gig duel processor HP box. Nice.

No wonder I think that OSS zealots are idiots.

"But OSS is FREE!"

So is dirt. Blow me.

I was in a situation where I told two people that I had done something related to a technology. i.e. I made this technology do such and such. It was a nifty little trick, but nothing more than a little JavaScript 101.

One person said:

"Cool, show me how you did that."

The other person said:

"*This* I have to see".

Say what?

Attitude is everything.

The intranet I work with at work is a nightmare. I hate it. It is the spaghetti monster from hell. I have written some crappy code in the past but this thing takes the cake. When I first started I thought that I just didn't "get it"... that the guy before me had some mojo I just couldn't get my head around. Now I know he was a bad coder and a horrible architect.

Smart? yes. talented? Sorta. Good? no.

Both my boss and myself DREAD having to deal with his code.

My second thought:

I want a mentor. There is no one that I work with that can bring me to the next level with Coldfusion. My boss is a gifted programmer but he is a VB Jedi and is still learning CF. He has taught me a lot but I want an Andrés Segovia type mentor. Someone who will not take no for an answer, whip me into shape, and teach me the ways of the code warrior.

I am truly ready, willing and able.

I love web dev. I love to talk shop. I went to the web designers chat room on yahoo chat. I asked a question. I was abused, ridiculed, tormented and mocked for asking a question in a forum that encouraged people to share knowledge.

What I found there was a group of elitist, abusive, condescending, too cool for Christmas, jaded assholes. It disgusted me in a manner is beyond words. They are the most insecure, trash talking, gossiping, "look he is down, kick him" bitches I have ever seen in my life.

If geeks conducted themselves in real life in the same manner that they do online, their bodies would litter the streets.

I am ashamed that I even share genome with these cretins.

I am not sure what it is but golly gee it looks pretty hip with all those young people on the install screen. They sure look happy.

It is a ms app and it failed finding the hardware. Go figger. Oh no's I am not one of the cool kids.... FUCK!!!

All I care about is 30 gigs of tunes. If I was that young and hip, I would be as poor as I was back in the day, and nick their zune and sell it, and use the money to pay rent and use the left over money to buy pot and beer.

This lovely little nugget of SUCK my predecessors left me fills me with the urge to vomit

Since Adobe's pricing of ColdFusion 8 is effectively pushing out of the price range for most hosting companies and internet start ups, pretty much guaranteeing that it will never regain its popularity, I decided to learn Java. I might as well, I learned PHP, ASP and a bit of C#, so what is one more language?

I talked to by boss about it and he couldn't be happier about it. It turns out he has been wanting us to get into Java for quite some time.

So I went and looked around for a Java IDE for Eclipse and found EasyEclipse Server Java (pops). It has all kinds of goodies like Database tools, an html editor, tools for the working with Servlets, Java tags, the Spring Framework and support for Hibernate ORM. Basically all the stuff that the cool kids use. SWEET! God, I love open source.

I started looking around and found this tute on Spring. Developing a Spring Framework MVC application step-by-step. After skimming for 20 seconds I immediately recognized that all the stuff I learned on MVC, Mach-II and Model Glue, Cold Spring were applicable. Very nice.

Then I went a got the Tom Cat Plug-in for Xampp, ran the set up bat file and Waar-la, I am up and running, writing my first app.

One thing I noticed right off the bat with EasyEclipse Server Java was that I felt just like I did many years ago, when I I opened up CF Studio for the first time. "Wow, what is all this stuff do?" I started opening up files and clicking this and that pane and all these cool things were appearing that weren't there when I was editing CFM pages. It is a little daunting and a bit overwhelming, but I soon realized how quickly I had mastered CF studio and now know it like the back of my hand, and even hacked it to write ASP and PHP. Hell I even wrote hacks for CF Studio so I could use it to write PHP.

So yeah, this is going to be fun. I have a LOT to learn.