Application Market Place for Android based phones is a funky place. The commenting system is truly jacked up. I saw many nasty and disturbing comments left by users. Many discussions around the matter can be seen here, just search for “comments”.
From a developer’s perspective it’s extremely sad to be trashed by a bunch of bozos. Almost feel lucky that our stuff was not trashed that bad. Fingers crossed. The interesting part on the matter is Google’s reluctance. It looks like they recently started cleaning up some of those comments; I see less and less. Come on Google, how difficult could it possibly be to integrate a profanity filter !
I didn’t intend to bitch about the epic fail of Google’s Android Market commenting system. It is what it is and it will stay as it is until they fix it.
This one, on the right is a recent comment which is left for Txtract . I find it sorta amusing and witty. A different kind of compliment (if it really is a compliment). “victory and female genitalia to you“ . Oh well! Thanks to you “punkofevil”, for your good wishes. Wishing the same back at ya
And Joanna, sorry that you have to do something like that.
Google, Google; when will you implement the “paid” applications in the Android Market !
Booze - Fish Bureau of Investigation - Most Wanted
I’ve been looking for this photo of Booze (my cat), finally found it ! posting it here, as I do for some of my stuff, so that I won’t loose it again.
This photo was taken after we found him next to our fish. Fortunately, he was cleared off all charges of first degree fish-murder. It was technically impossible for Booze to jump on the kitchen counter to accomplish such a hideous action.
The verdict was; the fish committed suicide. Booze innocent !
There are 20 bikes across the globe that take a picture every 60 seconds while in motion – then the photo is tagged with GPS info, uploaded to Flickr and plotted on a map. You can see the world through the cameras of of those bikes and their riders -let’s call them the YRiders – via the Maplication tool on purplepedals.com.
That’s cool. Very cool indeed.
But there is something way way cooler, imho.
How about following a Donkey around Amsterdam ? Yet better read the blog of its adventures. I have no idea what Asino blogs about, perhaps it’s in Donkeyish, or in Dutch, same difference to me. It’s very entertaining see a Donkey’s eye (or DRiders) view of Amsterdam.
This ?
or this ?
I love the bikes, but come on… You can’t beat the donkey
Obviously those people are not Happy Tree Friends.
Whoever cutting those trees down should stop immediately, so our environmentalist friends can stop making videos like that. Please stop killing the trees, and help those people out of their misery. Forget about the environment, pollution, end of the world etc. Do it for the sake of silencing them.
Last week a friend of mine asked me to have a short chat with a contractor she was interested in hiring for a relatively long term “LAMP” (you know; php, mysql etc.) project. And I did have my quick chat with that “i am pro, over pro” guy.
I was trying hard, very very hard to be nice.
And I blurred all the distinctive elements in this chat for privacy reasons.
The Chat (interview)
Gelo: Hello
Me: hi Gelo..
Me: got your message. will get back you very shortly .
Gelo: Hello
Gelo: “Advanced ######### Pro Development”
Gelo: Let me know
Gelo: I will be online your morning
Me: alright Gelo. i’m trying to pack a few projects here. sorry about that . i’ll ping you later. or let me know when you’re avail.
Gelo: now can talk
Me: actually, i won’t take too much of your time.
Me: have a few questions for you.
Me: let’s chat a bit now
Gelo: yes
Me: saw some of your work. brilliant. very nice.
Gelo: Great
Gelo: I did #########
Gelo: 4000 hours during 2 years
Gelo: their best developer closed 9000 hours during 7 years
Gelo: so you should see
Gelo: he left them and I did too
Gelo: Please, check the Employment section at the bottom here #########
Gelo: yesterday php5 test 10/10, but 84% because of pressing “complie” button a few times for a few tasks
Me: i believe ######### told you about what they need on their project
Gelo: No
Gelo: Never
Gelo: ######### developer
Gelo: only
Me: oh. well, bottom line, they need some significant mods on #########.
Me: which will have a lot of db changes.
Me: how’s your db skills ?
Gelo: good
Me: can you type a few things about normalized db’s *without book terms. just what you know about them.
Gelo: I don’t know details. I am technical person. Never read books. Sorry. I know queries to normilize DB, but better to recode table structure if it is bad
Me: k.
Me: any performance optimization things on mysql? ever worked on those ?
Me: cached queries etc?
Gelo: No, but if you need – will be happy to start
Me: i’m sure you’ll get to those if need be. one would never touch any of those, until some project gets super slow and you start looking into those.
Me: i’m not familiar with ######### code, or anything around it, so i can’t talk to you about it.
Me: but i’d like to know your MVC design patterns experience
Me: does ######### use MVC?
Gelo: MVC.. No
Me: so it’s more functional ?
Me: instead of object oriented
Gelo: built on functions only
Me: bummer, but oh well. it was developed a long time ago, right ?
Gelo: functions is low level
Me: since you’re familiar with php5, can you please tell me abotu “function overriding” in php ? Gelo: they will not do classes, I tink
Gelo: functions must be faster
Gelo: no
Gelo: cannot
Gelo: Please, learn php.net
Gelo: I am not an online book
Gelo: I am ready for single jobs
Gelo: I was never reading books, sorry
Me: you may consider this an interview for a quite a long term project for #########.
Gelo: I am not ready for intereview
Gelo: I am ready for test
Me: it’s not about reading books Gelo.
Gelo: Give me tasks
Me: anyways, i think your technical skills are very strong.
Gelo: and see Gelo: You will not talk with me
Gelo: You will give me job
Gelo: I will do it
Gelo: we will not talk
Gelo: it is easy
Gelo: I can handle not only #########
Me: it’s not my job to give you the job. i’ll only provide feedback to ######### people .
Gelo: if I have a lot of letters in my mind – it does not mean that I can talk about everything You should see if you are a developer too
Me: they’re already thinking highly of you, but it’s their decision to make. they just asked me to have a quick chat with you
Gelo: I can check php.net and say what this function mean
Gelo: I have it somewhere deep in mind only
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The email follows;
from a user….
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