I'm weighing the advantages of getting a new laptop.
Currently I have a Sony V505. Its small and light and has pretty decent battery life. Stylish too.
However it sports a king size (not!) 12" screen, a 1.8Ghz "M" processor, and 512mb ram. WiFi is a PC card sticking out the side.
All in all its a great little machine, but it sucks at doing any "heavy lifting". Coding, gaming, or any sort of multi-tasking is next to impossible.
This has me looking towards a beefier system. Most likely a VoodooPC Envy:780. 17" wide screen, 256 MB ATI 9700 video card, 60 gb - 8mb cache 7200 rmp HD, and a P4 3.2HT and under 9lbs! Only problem with it? Price! About $4000!
Ouch.
I'll aleast wait till the 9800 video card is available.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Friday, August 13, 2004
Dawning Of the Holy Wars --- Again
The dust is finally begin to settle here, the bloodbath of the holy wars between Java and .NET here are winding down. The winner is clear at this point, although there is still some stalwart hold outs on the opposition.
Yesterday a final blow was throw by management - recognising .NET victorious by suggesting my group develop a web center of excellence over the next few months. This center of excellence will be responsible for setting and maintaining the rules of engadgement for creating web applications on the .NET platform. Java will be forced to follow in the foot steps of .NET.
A little background before. I am a Java developer, err... well I was a Java developer. I worked at a software development house as a software engineer and release engineer where the release system, and the core product was written in Java. Even the version of Corba was the java implementation. From advanced coding, to tweaking jvm performance options, and solaris kernal parameter tuning.
Then I went on to a financials company and did Java development there too.
However I ended up in an ASP/VB environment here, and that was just painful. Then we inherited legacy systems on different platforms such as seeker, cold fusion, and domino. It was horrific. After elegant designs in java I had been tossed into a world of spaghetti, interoperability nightmares, and mangled development practices.
Rapidly as we could we moved to .NET, as a logical progression from ASP/VB. Standardizing on .NET, retiring other technologies as soon as they occured. We transitioned into a component based frame of development and now are moving to framework based development. We have a clear end game in mind - Service Orient Architecture, with solid yet agile development practices.
Meanwhile Java development here plugged along, some strong development, but not much evolution.
My goals since being here have to recognise the value proposition Microsoft puts forth: inexpensive, advanced, fast development platform. Probably the best IDE out there overall. Inexpensive server cost proposition. Easy/inexpensive developer requirements. True object oriented platform. Large framework library to leverage. Multitude of components available.
Reading the following article:
JDJ Opinion: "Java is Back!" (SYS-CON)(Printview)
made me realize that Java indeed is dying a slow death beyond the walls of this company.
Looking forward the challenge will be to keep the heat on innovating development techniques and capabilites and leading the wave of changes that will realize increased integration, reduced development time, and increased software quality.
The one area of concern I have with .NET is its adoption in integration suites by middle tier vendors. Things like document approvals and routing solutions.
Recently I was disappointed on an request for proposal, that only one vendor's solution was .NET based (adobe) and they were planning on moving to J2EE for their next version.
So the holy wars are on. Microsoft .NET has one the battle of web application development here, all that remains will be to begin to move middle tier vendors to the platform for consistancy and it will be time to look at the next holy war.
What will it be? I'm not sure. Oracle VS Sql Server?
Yesterday a final blow was throw by management - recognising .NET victorious by suggesting my group develop a web center of excellence over the next few months. This center of excellence will be responsible for setting and maintaining the rules of engadgement for creating web applications on the .NET platform. Java will be forced to follow in the foot steps of .NET.
A little background before. I am a Java developer, err... well I was a Java developer. I worked at a software development house as a software engineer and release engineer where the release system, and the core product was written in Java. Even the version of Corba was the java implementation. From advanced coding, to tweaking jvm performance options, and solaris kernal parameter tuning.
Then I went on to a financials company and did Java development there too.
However I ended up in an ASP/VB environment here, and that was just painful. Then we inherited legacy systems on different platforms such as seeker, cold fusion, and domino. It was horrific. After elegant designs in java I had been tossed into a world of spaghetti, interoperability nightmares, and mangled development practices.
Rapidly as we could we moved to .NET, as a logical progression from ASP/VB. Standardizing on .NET, retiring other technologies as soon as they occured. We transitioned into a component based frame of development and now are moving to framework based development. We have a clear end game in mind - Service Orient Architecture, with solid yet agile development practices.
Meanwhile Java development here plugged along, some strong development, but not much evolution.
My goals since being here have to recognise the value proposition Microsoft puts forth: inexpensive, advanced, fast development platform. Probably the best IDE out there overall. Inexpensive server cost proposition. Easy/inexpensive developer requirements. True object oriented platform. Large framework library to leverage. Multitude of components available.
Reading the following article:
JDJ Opinion: "Java is Back!" (SYS-CON)(Printview)
made me realize that Java indeed is dying a slow death beyond the walls of this company.
Looking forward the challenge will be to keep the heat on innovating development techniques and capabilites and leading the wave of changes that will realize increased integration, reduced development time, and increased software quality.
The one area of concern I have with .NET is its adoption in integration suites by middle tier vendors. Things like document approvals and routing solutions.
Recently I was disappointed on an request for proposal, that only one vendor's solution was .NET based (adobe) and they were planning on moving to J2EE for their next version.
So the holy wars are on. Microsoft .NET has one the battle of web application development here, all that remains will be to begin to move middle tier vendors to the platform for consistancy and it will be time to look at the next holy war.
What will it be? I'm not sure. Oracle VS Sql Server?
Monday, August 09, 2004
Thanks to Kirk Allen Evan:
"Our Team is Hiring Microsoft Evangelists"
These positions sound amazing. Specifically the architect role right here in NJ!!!!
Basically it sound like what I do everyday at my current position, but for a much larger scale. Very Cool!!!
I showed the description to a friend of mine, and he stopped, and said, Rob - this is the job for you.
So that confirmed it - time to dust off the resume and send it in.
I wasn't even remotely thinking about a new job....
Even if it goes no where, just knowing the position exists is awesome. I haven't been excited about a job prospect in a very long time.
These positions sound amazing. Specifically the architect role right here in NJ!!!!
Basically it sound like what I do everyday at my current position, but for a much larger scale. Very Cool!!!
I showed the description to a friend of mine, and he stopped, and said, Rob - this is the job for you.
So that confirmed it - time to dust off the resume and send it in.
I wasn't even remotely thinking about a new job....
Even if it goes no where, just knowing the position exists is awesome. I haven't been excited about a job prospect in a very long time.
WilsonDotNet Home
WilsonDotNet Home definitely needs some review - some excellent concepts here.
Also checking out this suite, for work, but am shying away from it.
Definitely looking to introduce callbacks, and drag and drop/dock into our development capabilities next year. Personalization on the drag and drop stuff to keep it where the user put it for thier next session.
Also people are going to what to find out what the common customizations are, and make it the default.
Also checking out this suite, for work, but am shying away from it.
Definitely looking to introduce callbacks, and drag and drop/dock into our development capabilities next year. Personalization on the drag and drop stuff to keep it where the user put it for thier next session.
Also people are going to what to find out what the common customizations are, and make it the default.
Friday, August 06, 2004
let it blast
Thursday, August 05, 2004
Monday, August 02, 2004
impressive coding
http://weblogs.asp.net/okloeten/archive/2004/07/31/202656.aspx
This is too cool. Inspired by old AsciiArt this guy wrote a program to convert an image to HTML.
Wow the power of CSS!
This is too cool. Inspired by old AsciiArt this guy wrote a program to convert an image to HTML.
Wow the power of CSS!
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