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Ik kom weer terug maar voorlopig ben ik er vandoor. Bellen heeft geen zin. Mailen kan je wel proberen.

Pretty old i guess but i never did catch the saga of Iconwars.

“We got you covered like a jimmy hat” (thnx to Yaccizzle)

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Malice and Incompetence

I have put up with random disconnects, slow speeds, lag and similar crap for almost three months now but today i gave up. WiFi fucking sucks. Maybe it’s nice on your Symbian phone or you Palm PDA but as long as Microsoft thinks there is nothing wrong with it’s windows WiFi implementation stay the fuck away from wireless for your desktop. Maybe use it for your laptop. If your not going to use it for anything serious. Like reading your mail. I just plugged in my trusty old ethernet cable again and even starting up my browser is faster (no i am not kidding). For some reason when my WiFi connection was busy disconnecting and reconnecting again every 5 minutes my whole pc figured it could just as well go idle on me and stop responding. And no there was no magic driver upate to solve my problem. All my hardware was top notch tested stuff packed with the latest firmware, and my windows XP is fully updated.

Ok, thats out of my system. thanks.

Jeff has a nice recap of this whole discussion. Altough it’s probably not over yet. I will now head over to the Java blogs to see what their take on all this is (it’s not a real discussion if you only hear one side right).

If you are wondering why i find this discussion interesting… I used to work at a company employing Perl, ASP, PHP & Java/JSP people and the Java people were by far the most ‘vocal’ about their language. So i naturally adopted a lot of their ideas about good programming practices. I used to program a bit of JSP too but have since moved to another company fully embracing PHP as my main language. It’s nice to see some of the arguments for using either language fully explored after having some doubts on the correct use of Java (and PHP) myself.

All in all not much has changed though, i remember having to explain to a sales consultant when he should push for Java and when for PHP as the correct tool for the job and ending up saying something like ‘if they want (can afford) complexity, sell them Java. If they simply want a database driven website sell them PHP/ASP’. This probably still goes for lots of large IT shops. And it’s not just a technological discussion, but also a psychological one. Some IT-managers will simply not be content spending only 80k euro on their shiny new CMS driven website, they -have to- spend at least 500k on complexity.

Following this thread on Harry Fuecks blog; “The J2EE guy still doesn’t get PHP” which is a long winded reply to a scalability discussion that started in the wake of Friendster moving from PHP to JSP, i ended up spending most of the day reading up on PHP vs. Java vs. Everything discussions, articles and whatnot. All of them interesting reads though. In the end it still boils down to use what you know but us it wisely type mantra’s. PHP works fine for big sites, Java/JSP does too. PHP at the moment does have the edge in actual working examples though (think Yahoo.com).

Gmail as an online backup system

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