Tag Archives: antiusability

RandomAccessFile weirdness explained, no buffers, just pain.

Ola! I’ve been coding a new android keyboard lately, a project for my university degree but also : for fun. While I was doing this, specially while implementing a file-based dictionary containing frequency information of all words stored in there, I stumbled upon a very, very weird Java-behavior.
Let’s explain it. Using RandomAccessFile, you have both [...]

Finally: Wordpress Benchmark

Finally: Wordpress Benchmark

So, there are no real benchmarks of a Wordpress running in the wild available ( couldn’t believe it either.. ). So I got my ab and gnuplot friends and created one. The reason why I’m doing this that while developing ( or forking, to be honest, marc’s work ) i was curious what php can [...]

Using ActiveResource in the wild

My last posts haven’t been quite technical, and they haven’t been quite recent too- I’m sorry, yet I just don’t have time. As a brief follow-up: it has been overwhelming in San Francisco ( except for the 300$-dentist bill ), and I’m so looking forward to coming back.
And, tada, I’ve been spending the last few [...]

Web Development and MVC: a pain somewhere, cont’d.

Our beloved model-view-controller pattern seems to act as an excuse for every damn web-framework out there. Yet there is one problem. From my point of view, no framework to date has ever managed to slice a web application in a useful way. Really. Why?
First of all, it should be clear that patterns just like MVC [...]

Popular Antipatterns explained.

There is so much talking about buzzy Design Patterns. But honestly, who cares. We don’t need MVC as long as it works. What is Flyweight? And definitely no need to decorate anything, this is a factory.
But unless you already found the perfect way to eliminate code beauty and readability, I put up this short list [...]

RIP, Macbook

So this is great news on a monday morning. Just before I started to work my MacBook died. There was nothing I could do for it. The CPU-Fan stopped rotating at about 9:50am. May it rest in peace.

Microsoft to finally create amazing software again

Of course, this is just fake. Unfortunately. The question in doubt is really when Microsoft is leaving its path leading to nowhere and starts over producing quality software again? Let’s summarize Microsofts products to have something to talk about.

Microsoft to receive the annual award for the funniest bug

Keep looking for that headline! The reason is simple, and you will agree ( hopefully ) that this is indeed a freaking funny bug description. The bug itself is funny, too. And I just don’t understand why, but let the details rest aside, and let’s enjoy it:
A Web site cannot set a cookie if the [...]

Why PHP should be banned.

Neither is Basic! Really, normally I’m trying to be objective, but I just can’t when it comes to PHP. I’ve done a lot of stuff in PHP over the years ( yes, including a CMS, Portal, Guestbook and Gallery ) but as far as I can tell this language meets every requirement to be disqualified [...]

Antiusability at its best: Language Documentation

Whether you’re an active developer busy doing some Java, Ruby, Perl or ( fill in your language here ) based projects, you’ll most likely have some kind of browser windows opened sometimes providing you with the necessary documentation for libraries or ( but hopefully not ) language basics. 
Because I’m not in love with one language [...]