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JasonPSage

I agree, I wish they at least made it so you could toggle the ribbon to use the traditional menu - only because everyone knows it, and it does take up much less real estate not to mention memory - ugh.

Know way too many languages... master of none! I'm just another artist navigating the technical shark infested waters trying to find digital serenity!

JasonPSage

Sorry I'm late on this. Windows has a tendency (getting better) take whatever window it feels like and splatters it right on top of what you were doing without regard to how much the move made by the OS may have set you back. It's simply bad manners. Case and point: You click MS-Access, it's taking awhile, so you start an email to a buddy... then mid sentance the msaccess program takes over the screen interrupting your train of thought etc. Doesn't happen in linux. This isn't a hate thing - just something I find very frustrating. I won't go on about other things liek security being ...just different. Linux isn't perfect BUT - the source code is about, many folks (community) all are using it and can not only learn things but can go after fixing things permanently for everyone... etc. That part is kind of neat and when you think of the "SWARM" effect ... (crowd sourcing nature of many open source projects)... it's usually a win for everyone. Not always - I can see both arguements for licensed versus not - but that's another topic... I digress. Back to the question Linux vs. Windows.... Both are really good.. Linux just seems to come in more flavors...maybe more complex.. but not much more than buying a car really. All drive... just look, drive, specialize..differently. But once you know one vehicle...you can USUALLY figure out most others. To Apple's Cred - They too went with a UNIX based (or fashioned after) system - directly with the new MAC's. Cool. More "standards" really. Sure there are some chasms - but - the "world" is going one way it seems... and licensed stuff is vying for another... perhaps just trying to hang on while they swtich to some cloud revenue stream...dunno. That's my thoughts... I have more - but many folks have great thoughts too on this... I will leave with the fact that programs written for UNIX that are now 30years old will still compile and run today. Visual Basic 6 was the last in a fairly long run of Microsoft Basic's from before there was anything "Visual" about it... as in it was all console "Professional Development System" and the like. This technology has been antiquated in such a way that programs written for it can no longer be guaranteed to "re-render" or "recompile" on newer systems and be expect to run flawless. This ... above the technology details themselves; makes building on "what we know" (e.g. standing on the shoulders of giants) difficult. We can create great things with solid software building blocks with years of testing and real hard

JasonPSage

Just had a client get upset with me because I haven't got a system running and improved from where it was "before" when it worked... It worked before some other developer changed database structures, fields, tables, broke queries and worse.. broke the very call to my application - which would have alerted us to database errors and the like. I have been giving it my all but now it seems to be all data related... solution thus far has been a "link table" provided to me by the same developer to "show me" where the fields and things have been moved to. Well... I coded to spec... and each record is dying for different reasons.. reasons that just don't make sense and have me second guessing code that ran flawless before (under the hood code I wrote, call, test regularly and trust...) Point is - version control and other comment shere are pretty much all spot on when they say its not your code... if you're an employee - chance are they are right. If they are a consultant; it depends on the contract/agreements etc. By default, a coder's code is a coder's code .. unless there is something in writing to the contrary which any consultant worth their salt wouldn't flinch at signing anymore than any employee does when getting a new software development job. Experience tells me that pissing matches always just make everyone miserable... so.. usually things need to be solved early on by management... if they see this.. usually one of the two at the P-Party gets the axe... the kind employers/clients will give you some options first to save face and leave gracefully or kiss-n-makeup with agreement to compromise and work together like professionals... etc etc... fail.. you will be terminated. LOL... that's how I see it... because I've seen these kinds of "tensions" play out over similiar issues in real cubical Dilbert land... honestly.. that's the MAIN reason I got tired of professionally consulting onsite for the big boys... cubical hell is dog-eat-dog.. which wouldn't even be that bad if the folks that were like that were actually genuses or something.. they're not.. so you end up seeing at times what appears to be "casual" dog fights and monkey-like politics... screaming for the banana hanging on the rope at anyone's expense.. That's why I'm an Entrepreneur (partially..at least that is one reason I really like it ... :) ) ..that said... ...another thought is comments in code; source control; etc. Polite ... POLITE comments that state fact, not emotion... fix..initials... what was wrong.. did I say FACTS ON

JasonPSage

I like what you wrote but this bit: "if you were saying it is better than using c++ then i would probably agree" I would just disagree... but... based on my love for closer to the CPU/leaner style of coding. I think Scripts and JIT are "tools" but I think bits pouring through a oscillator that exercises logic on bit patterns being retrieved and stored in ram or device IO push/pull as being viable for speedy systems... Everything else - adds a layer - a layer who may or may not truly be advantageous... each scenarios different... but the lag I see when JIT does its JIT - STINKS! Worst times - Java? I love when Java jocks say they compile their code - all they do is "P" on it[edit:] They only Pre-Compile (P-Code) code to a Tokenized state which does allows for generic dispatch programming at the lowest level but this too is another layer albeit necessary for "p-compile once - run anywhere". This is actually why I think FreePascal is the best thing going because it combines all the benefits of a mature OOP and other paradigm capable language like C/C++; it compiles to pure binary like C/C++, it compiles faster than c++ because it uses a completely different organization of application code and data so ... it's simply easier/faster for the computer to turn source into machine code.

Know way too many languages... master of none! I'm just another artist navigating the technical shark infested waters trying to find digital serenity!

modified on Friday, December 3, 2010 3:35 AM

JasonPSage

EXACTLY!!!!! OMG - My MANTRA! - Edit: LOL (nth degree version): Everything else is BLOAT!

Know way too many languages... master of none! I'm just another artist navigating the technical shark infested waters trying to find digital serenity!

JasonPSage

Databases and Regular Files (stream of bytes stored on disk) are both powerful mechanisms for data storage and retrieval. Remember that each has it's strengths: point is to take a moment to think if perhaps the database being polled for work versus a special file you devise (for speed's sake) that allows quick answers to the "Polling: Do what Now? question" Second - There is a tool called SEC: Simple Event Correlator I think you'll find this isn't as far removed from what you're trying to do as it might first look... this is the kind of system you are talking about - for general scheduling.. then you can toss in business logic to do all kinds of stuff. The premise is this thing works by reading log files... and applying "rules" to them./.. basically.. if Log file A says "Server Down" ..say... you toss in rule.. 4 times in an hour - then this SEC thing would see the condition was met, then fire off some other task you said to do in this condition... say email IT server support, call the troops.. Perhaps if the same program see that 2 hours later server is still down - it sends out a email to let folks know "system X" is offline and is undergoing maintenance... I'm all about writing fresh new cool useful systems when I can manage it.. but in this case.. I think you might have a few systems to pull from that you can "configure-code-customize" to do exactly what you need without to much heads-down new-development other than implementation work to automate what you need done... like sending those emails you were asking about [edit]Conclusion: By using SEC or Splunk or other log file analyzing rule based engine - and perhaps simply writing a line of text to a log file to cause something to fire... or by just monitoring log files for "triggers" to respond to - action items... might work as a direct alternative to simple scheduled "cron" or "system tasks" being queued up. [/edit]