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Continue ReadingI’ve been chewing on this since the latest Android update hit Jessica and my phones, and I posted about it here. Basically, software design has gotten crazy over the last few years. With technology going mainstream, and most people carrying computers in their pockets in the form of a smartphone, software design is much less of an art form than a race. The problem as I see it, though, is they don’t know what they’re racing towards, other than to be first. There is nothing wrong with that, either. Though sometimes I wish developers could be just a bit more altruistic when they make their choices.
Continue ReadingSo, I’ve been working with JetBrains PhpStorm for about 6 months or so now. Only recently have I started forcing myself to serious work with it. Part of the reason why I used tabbed terminals and VIM for so many years is that it is very fast. No mouse clicking, my hands never need to leave the keyboard except to test what I’ve just written in a browser.
Continue ReadingAfter I posted Google Protocol Buffers Where Have You Been All My Life, I started thinking about the multiple inheritance issue a bit more. After a couple of initial trials, I believed it wasn’t going to work. I kept thinking about that, became somewhat obsessed and needed to figure out why it wasn’t going to work.
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