Why oh why are some things just so fgging complex that two people spend hours staring at the screen trying to figure our how to map simple customer requests on to the framework given to us? It starts to remind me of that old J2EE project where we had more layers than developers. There comes a point when the entire thing makes no sense at all. It generates more problems than it solves, it generates more boring complex brain-grinding menial tasks. *DIE DIE DIE DIE!* >{
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Ouch dude. You sound *really* stressed. Take a break before you decide that that the whole technology revolution was a waste of time, chuck it all out the window and go into a cave with a piece of flint and some firewood.
– NoufalIbrahim 2005-04-19 11:37 UTC
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I spent the rest of the day transforming Excel files into insert scripts for a data load. Very pleasant work. Used Emacs and Perl a lot. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2005-04-19 16:41 UTC
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At work, we found the following : two guys were using J2EE framework for making a “network based”_telecom application, the application was a complete mess nobody can understand the stuff... and full of bugs. After a discussion, we tried a two-days prototype in Perl to solve some issues of the initial “java professional” application... As far as I know, the Perl prototype is still running and handling more request than the old java application. I’m wondering how many Perl_Python/Ruby software is fixing Java software in the world.
– Anonymous 2005-04-20 20:37 UTC
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Hehehe... Maybe the company is slowly changing, here. The other day a mail was sent asking who else might be interested in buying a Komodo license (an IDE for Perl development by Active State).
– Alex Schroeder 2005-04-20 23:26 UTC
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As Sun loves to say, Java is not for those little things. It’s the only platform that scales and works for “enterprise computing”. *snicker* :P
– NoufalIbrahim 2005-04-21 06:34 UTC
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Yesterday we were chatting in the cafeteria, and I said once again that J2EE was meant to be used by teams of 100 developers or more. There are no such IT projects in Switzerland.
– Alex Schroeder 2005-04-21 07:42 UTC
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A very nice quote found about Java :
– adulau 2005-04-23 16:52 UTC