All blog posts from August 2009
Can a Programming Language Be Called Slow?
Often I read on blogs and such of how one cannot call a given programming language slow - that's it's the individual implementation of the language or a runtime which is to blame. Here is an example of such a post.
I disagree.
If we look at core language specifications, it become abundantly clear th…
Intelligent Java Applet Embedding
Too often I am faced with examples of poor embedding of Java Applets into a website. It's peculiar to see, because people seem to put in plenty of effort to identify and insert Flash, but nobody seems to have put in that much effort for Java.
This compounds the problems many places see - I have seen…
Personal Milestone
Happy 40th Birthday Unix
This month marked the 40th birthday of the venerable operating system. You have to give kudos to any piece of software which lasts longer than a decade, much less one spanning 4 decades.
And how can one celebrate Unix without a little Microsoft bashing? Here's what bubbled in my mind at the news of …
Javascript "Include"
For a project I was working on, I wanted the ability to do simple "include"-type instructions in order to spread my code across multiple JavaScript files without the necessity for a developer to manually type out <script> tags to include them all. I came across several posts which used the browser's…
Why I Won't Ever Have or Support iPhone
As anyone with eyes and ears knows by now, iPhone is becoming all the rage. Yet there are some of us who refuse to get caught up in the hype. So that is the problem?
Well, for me, it's a case of being locked in. iPhone offers 2 ways of developing application - HTML 2.0 or Objective-C. The first choi…
Disgust with Apple
I am becoming more and more disgusted with Apple. Read an article today about Apple trying to gag people who have suffered at the hands of defective Apple equipment.
Frankly, I don't care if this is common business practice or not. The fact of the matter is that Apple's culture of secrecy is startin…
VMWare Set to Acquire SpringSource - What Might This Mean?
I found out today that VMWare is going to buy out SpringSource. To be honest, I wasn't even aware that VMWare would be all that interested in a company which provides development and software management tools, but I guess since VMWare is already a player in the cloud computing buzz, they had to come…
Throwing Down the Gauntlet
I'm throwing down the gauntlet to other language/app developers. For my place of work, I developed a Java Applet for uploading multiple files to a server. Sure, you can do this with other technologies to a certain degree (selecting multiple files at once in Web 2.0 isn't really possible, is it?) but…
Internet Explorer Irregularities
Much has been written about the oddities and irregularities (and standards non-compliance) of Microsoft® Internet Explorer®, but I felt I should publish this one not only for posterity, but also as a helpful hint to other programmers who might need the functionality.
First, some background. I had …
Apple Had It Coming
Well, Apple had it coming. Apple has been wielding their control over the iPhone store and iTunes so anti-competitively that is was bound to raise the ire of US regulators.
Frankly, Apple deserves this. They've historically been one if the loudest voices crying foul of Microsoft's business practices…
Visit my Friends and Family
If you've enjoyed my site, please take a moment to visit my friends and family, many of whom have some interesting insights, and entertaining thoughts and ideas.
- Crause Family - the family website
- Peter Crause - my father
- Justin Crause - my brother
- Cencina Photomagic - great photographer
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