Posted by jay on September 1, 2006 under AJAX, Rants, Web2.0 | 
For about 5 seconds I was excited about The Ajax Experience Conference, not because it’s about Ajax but because it’s in Boston, until I saw the price to attend.
$1,250 If you pre-register before Sept 26.
$1,450 After that.
$1,250!! $1,450!!
For a conference!?
It’s not like this is TechED or the Hooters Waitress convention. It’s just Ajax.
This is obvisouly an attempt to extort just a bit more money before this over-hyped technology implodes.
What a rip-off: $1,450.
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Posted by jay on August 24, 2006 under General, Programming |
So I went to login to ********* and I accidentaly hit enter after I typed in my username and got this lovely error:
[inspic=3,,fullscreen,thumb]
To the untrained eye this is just an unfriendly error but to a hacker and I mean all those script kiddies and what not this is a glimpse at a potential targets data base schema.
Posted by jay on August 23, 2006 under General, Rants, Web2.0 |
Like anything else once a good idea gets out into the public people will fall over themselves trying to mimic what’s already been done. Remember back in the 80’s when video shops were poping up on every street corner. And remember how the shelves were jammed with bad (cheesey) apocalypse movies. Well that’s what this new internet boom is looking like. You’ve got your A list of reddit,Technorati, FeedBurner, Flickr and del.ico.us to name a few and then you’ve got the B list with Blogmarks, Pixel Groovy, itsdEx and Pooln just to name a few more Web2.0-ers. I’m not saying that the B list is sub-par, it’s just that they seemed to come on the scene after the start and maybe just before the peak.
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Posted by jay on August 22, 2006 under General |
If your a child of the 80’s Speed Metal era of dark, fast songs that invoke of images of destruction, war and anager but now you’re in your early 30’s, you’ve got kids, a wife and a good job; the new Slayer album Christ Illusion is probaly the last album you were planning on buying. Until now.
Listening Christ Illusion makes me feel like I’m 17 again when the world could FOAD. It’s the lost album in between South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss which I think were their best ever. I went off to college when Decade of Aggression came out and the whole metal thing was becoming lame. Nirvana, Alice in Chains and even Dave Matthews Band were my new thing. But this new album kicks my a$$. Tight, Angry, Fast and Loud. Not bad for a band that can be by time-standars considered Classic Rock!! But Classic Rock my a$$ these guys emit an aura of forocity that could bring down the apolypcs on the junk that’s on the radio.
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Posted by jay on under General, RSS/Atom, Rants |
At some point durring the day I derailed my thought process and ended up on amazon looking for books on Atom - (dev site: Atom or Wikipedia: Atom).
Essentially Atom is the next version of RSS and I’m just trying to see what’s ahead in technology.
Posted by jay on under General, Rants |
The day started off with me trying to creat a Ajaxified version of Wired’s (Issue 14.09) “Build a Web 2.0 Startup!” from buzzwords article. The gist of it is that you grab some key words from 4 list lists: Market, Hyped Tech, Service and Architecture and then apply them to this sentence:
It’s a [Market] site that uses [Hyped Tech] and [Hyped Tech] to do [Service] in a [Architecture ]. We call it [Pun or Misspelled Word].
For example they use Music, Ajax, Streaming, Recommendation and Social Network to get this:
It’s a Music site that uses Ajax and Streaming to do Recommendations in a Social Network. We call it LAST.FM.
So my dream Web 2.0 that google will buy for a million dollars is this:
It’s a Reviews site that uses Ajax and Tagging to do Recommendations in a Social Network. I call it gotFoo.
Anyway I wasted an hour trying to build a web page that would let you drag and drop the key words on to the sentence using script.aculo.us. So if google doesn’t buy my site tonight I’ll give the acript another shot tomorow.
Posted by jay on August 15, 2006 under C#, Rants |
Most articles and posts about the “C# vs VB.NET” argument conclude that the two languages are equal and only differ slightly. Although I agree with this I think the real difference is not the syntax of these languages but the way they are implemented. After 9 months of using VB.NET (on someone eles’s app) I have found that old school VB developers cannot let go of classic VB and have not embraced the power of .NET.
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