Entries Tagged as 'Computery Shite'

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Speaker “Wants what’s owed to me”

The Commons Speaker, Michael Martin has announced that, contrary to the many public calls for reform of the MP’s expenses troughing system, everything is just peachy and he wants what’s owed to him… well, quite fucking frankly, if you entered the Commons with that sort of mindset, you shouldn’t have taken up the fucking job.
This [...]

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Google Chrome

Yes, OK Google, well done, you made a browser.
Actually it’s quite nice, plus the logo is actually pretty sexy I must admit, but there’s something lacking… something falling a bit short of the mark on this and I know exactly what it is.
Plugins.
Yep, Plugins are those things that Firefox pulls off so brilliantly; I use [...]

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Google Checkout – the art of paranoia

Well, I’ve nothing against Google… but jesus christ, try delving into their Checkout API and you’re going to cack yourself; for a start, they require you to do submissions to their server securely… HTML is possible but of course, XML preferred.
Then, if you should decide you want notifications to be made as a callback, you [...]

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Well my mum says your programming language has no manners

Yeah… it’s the same old thing, C# developers think Java sucks, Java developers promptly run off into a corner to cry and masturbate.
Meanwhile, C++ developers tell the C# developers they’re idiots who have everything done for them, C# devs respond with a middle finger and/or fuck you.
OK, sorry, I’m biased, I hate Java, but nonetheless, [...]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Perl – the swiss army knife

…that takes bloody ages to get open.
Now, I’m sorry to be ranting about Perl, but I absolutely despise it; it’s that type of language that you have to install a bajillion things in order to run someone’s script, and invariably, all their script is doing is some menial rubbish that lets you manipulate a file [...]