One of the best moments of my life - I got admitted to the Smith School of Business at UMD. \

What\’s the most annoying creation in the entire universe? Right, customers. Three Dead Trolls have posted a video which is very representative and funny as hell. Check out and begin your day with a healthy lough, maybe you will survive a day of dealing with your customers. Enjoy \

Longhorn Screenshots were leaked, once again. It looks like those are close to the final version, this time. What can you say about them? It\’s sad when people have no taste and no feel for good user-interface design. Could not they hire, at least, somebody normal? How can one be so tasteless? For so long?...

If you are a Blogger subscriber you can get a free podcast via an affiliated service: AudioBlogger. It\’s pretty cool and generous, if you ask me, but one thing that really sucks is - you can only post your podcasts via some phone number (1 - 6 6 1- 7 1 6 - B L...

It makes me sick to stomach to see what is happening with the Java Web Frameworks. Sun and other vendors shamelessly push JSF down the customers throats and they swallaw it without as much as a word of a protest. JavaServer Faces is a piece of crap! It has its rotten roots so deep in Struts...

Pierre has pointed me to a very interesting article about how infrequent (in quantity) but large number (in distribution) of items can be a significant contributor (or missed opportunity) of your sales. The author, Joe Kraus, is the the co-founder of the Excite and the founder of JotSpot, so no surprise - he knows what...

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505I find it very interesting. Not so much that it\’s a deep philosophy or anything, but it is interesting in the sense - it shows a piece of Steve Jobs, probably one of the most remarkable persons of our and the end of previous centuries.

Apple released JDK5 implementation quite some time ago. The installer does not overwrite the default 1.4 installation but rather installs paralelly (good!). It also comes with a tool for switching between 1.4 and 5 JDKs. However that tool does not do crap (bad). We discussed this at TheServerSide when JDK was released and I posted...

Steve Jobs made a Keynote presentation at WWDC today. Regardless whether I like that Apple is switching to Intel processors vs. Power line or not is  a different story but the thing that has been proven, once again, for me is - Steve is a genius! Absolute, complete, incredibe. Having been developing Mac OS X for Intel, too,...

Even though I do get a satisfaction close to physical, seeing a clever Object-Oriented design, it never stops to amaze me that, as OO purists are ready to cut each-others throats over certain design decisions, the most important and sophisticated piece of software we use - operating systems - are almost entirely written in a non-OO language like C...

Sometimes people try too hard and end-up doing plain stupid things. One of such things ruined my day, today. XMLHttpRequest is very cool and AJAX is cool and it is awesome that all four major browsers (IE, Mozilla/Firefox, Opera, Safari) have support for it, in their latest versions. That’s unusually good, but Safari and Opera...

Latest joke I liked: “Microsoft Corporation has announced that it is looking for beta-testers for its upcoming operating-system - Longhorn. Applicable candidates must be natural-blond females.”

The following video demonstrated the integrated capabilities of the Zend Platform: http://www.zend.com/support/user_docs/ZendPlatform/video/demo/index.php. Granted that this is a commercial, one has to still admit that - THIS IS IMPRESSIVE! Let\’s be honest - this is one very cool integrated, intelligent system. The problem detection/debugging system looked absolutely awesome. Not many, even Java, platforms have cool system...

Ooops :) \ http://www.big-boys.com/articles/kosovo.html

Shortly put: 1) Read Doug\’s Blog Post 2) Followed some links from there on 3) Thought for 5 secs 4) Linked-in 5) Continued thinking… \