Iam fed up with making do!

One thing that really irritates me is the whole idea of making do when it comes to code. I quite often hear "oh that error, yeah, it sometimes happens we just restart and hope it goes away". Normally these errors are an indication that something is amis somewhere hence they are "errors". Find out what is causing the error and fix it, this does of course take time up front but in the long run its a much better option that building an app only to find out that the foundation it was built on was not very stable after all and the whole thing will either come crashing down or need a whole new rewrite which will cost a lot more than devoting a few days to tracking the original bug/bad design. Deployment is a big bug bear of mine too, something should be as easy to build and deploy as running an ant task, not several ant tasks, a few scripts and changing some properties on the system, it should be one task. Maven has this idea right out of the box and once configured correctly Maven has proved to be an immense time saver when it comes to the code/review/deploy/test cycle. Increased productivity is where the money is saved, not cutting corners this just hides the development costs. Patching over redesigning is a right pain too, imagine a method is required to do more and more over time, and rather than redesign the area of concern so that small objects that can be easily tested are created, instead the method is just allowed to grow to epic proportions. This is the cause of very long bug fixing as the method does far more than it should do, its responsibilities are not well defined and usually with these things because the code has not been reviewed it is mostly superfluous.

best things come in small packages

So its been a month and the insurance company still haven't got back to us with a decision GRRrrr but as I didn't want to put my life on hold I decided to buy myself a new toy. A long time ago I wanted to get an EeePC but couldn't find stock anywhere, this was the time I lost patience with dabs.com they are without shadow of a doubt, rubbish. Anyway I have saved up some money to get a netbook, but unlike earlier when there was only really one netbook to get now there are shed loads. After doing a bit of research I decided to get the samsung nc10, as I had used eeepc and aspire 1 in the past and didn't like the keyboard. I read a nice review that said how nice it was to have a large shift key on the right of the keyboard, which I prefer too. Anyway I got one and guess what, the idiots at samsung have given the European market a small right shift key grrrr have to say its the ONLY thing wrong with this tasty bit of kit though. Iam going to install linux on its massive hdd as a dual boot with the windows that comes with it. anyway loving the netbook back soon

I was so very wrong

In my last blog I was very cavalier about the whole economic crisis, thats because in economic turmoil I personally decide to cut back on luxuries and prevent spending more money. However I have been hit by the other side of the social spectrum, thats right I have been burgled by some ignorant scavangers after whatever they can get. About 30 minutes is probably all it took, in 30 minutes my entire life has been brought to a halt. They only stole "stuff" I am sure they justify this theft with "what do they care its insured" well no you fucking prick it isn't all insured, the fact that I haven't been able to sleep properly for over 80 hours, the fact that every loud noise I hear makes my heart race, the fact that I view everyone in my estate with suspicion and contempt is not all covered by fucking insurance is it you skagged up wanker. My home used to be my safe haven the place I could run to in times of pressure and now no longer, I feel weak and unable to protect that which I hold most dear, my wife!!! Stealing stuff is just stuff, its what is stolen without even realising it that hurts the most. I try to be a nice person and generous, if these people had asked for assistance I probably would have helped them without any expectations but now I am a changed person, my ideals are not what they were, my generosity almost non existent now. I spent many hours out of my house today at work and after meetinf friends, and where I used to be the one to call it a night I found myself trying to convince everyone to stay for just one more round, one more round so that I would not have to go home and open the front door again, one more round so that I could at least pretend that it hadn't happened. People who will have been burgled before are probably wondering why I have taken it so hard and can't get over it, I don't know is the simple answer, many things I can get over but this has hit me hard and I don't know why. All I can say is that I hope not to see a rise in this sort of behaviour as the economy tries its hardest to tear itself apart at the seams!! Having insurance does not mean that hard workers don't have to pay for the things that they lose, it is totally wrong to think otherwise I used to love my home and the area that I lived in now I can't wait to move out! Life is like a box of chocolates...eventually it all rots down to shit!