Posts Tagged ‘ Rant ’

Apple’s Developer Membership Order System is broken!

  • January 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Apple, you really know how to piss off developers! First you want me to pay 99$ just to be able to actually test my iPhone apps on the device then your Shop Order Form does not allow me to set it to English if I’m not living in the US/UK and to top it all [ READ MORE ]

The Confusion about ‘this’

  • December 5th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

I often browse through code libraries written by others and can’t deny noticing that so many developers are making exaggerated use of the ‘this’ keyword in their code. Today I came across CASAlib an otherwise very neat and certainly helpful library and after roaming through some of the code base it turns out that in [ READ MORE ]

10 Days …

  • October 26th, 2008
  • Posted in Misc

… until the president election! Do the world a favor and vote for the right guys. And by that I mean not for THEM! People with at least a tad of intelligence now that Barack dances better anyway.  [ READ MORE ]

Aw Snap! This site is not meant for you!

  • September 6th, 2008
  • Posted in Misc

Chrome, the new snazzy browser from Google is currently in everyone’s mouth and most people who had a look at it seem to be impressed so I decided to give it a go, after all it can’t be so bad, right? Chrome installs right onto your system from the website and then takes over (or if [ READ MORE ]

Container bug in Flex3 beta2

  • October 19th, 2007
  • Posted in Dev

Makes me wonder why nobody else has yet written anything about this bug ... when using any container component like for example a Panel or TitleWindow with a different borderStyle than the default[ READ MORE ]

Need more reason to NOT use Vista?

  • January 25th, 2007
  • Posted in Misc

… If you use a Logitech mouse you already got it! The company now officially made it clear on their support forums that there will be no support for Mouseware for Windows Vista. Instead they point their customers to use the generic mouse driver that ships with Vista. But have they told you that the [ READ MORE ]

Windows Vista the Protection Monster … and at which costs!

  • December 26th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

Still think Windows Vista is a great OS? It might look great but whats going on under it’s shiny surface? Peter Gutmann has written an extensive article about Vista’s underlying content protection systems. If you plan to use Vista, read it! And then think again! Quote: “The only reason I can imagine why Microsoft would put [ READ MORE ]

Using Vista is like walking on thin ice … Vista’s EULA product activation worries

  • November 23rd, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

“…Once you activate the product, then you would assume that you are golden to go ahead and use the product, right? Wrong. You see, even after you activate the software it will, according to the EULA, “from time to time validate the software, update or require download of the validation feature of the software”. It will once again “send [ READ MORE ]

Vista and the missing compatible Software

  • November 17th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

I’ve made a partition with Windows Vista RC a while back to check out how well my used Software will run. First off I like Vista, I really do! It’s polished Aero Look is reason enough for me to switch from the vomit-colored Windows XP. But I soon realized that something important is currently missing [ READ MORE ]

ePaper – When is it feasable?

  • September 26th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

I’m really missing one great invention that has yet to come for global consumption … books made of electronic paper! I’m not talking about these LCD display-like books or these foil-like papers that are already used for some advertising purposes. What I’d love to see available is a pocket notebook made of finely woven ePaper [ READ MORE ]

Fixing other people’s code

  • September 22nd, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

I just had to refuse the second job offer this year where I would have to fix somebody else’s written ActionScript 1 spagetti code! I don’t know what is the reason for agencies trying to give such jobs but it’s save to say that the troubles of digging through the messy and often timeline-spread code [ READ MORE ]

The Crappiest Corporate Site of the Week

  • July 24th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

The “Crappiest Corporate Site of the Week” Award goes to Dell Japan for not being able to have a Shop website that runs on current Browsers! When I try to get onto their XPS 700 Customization page I get a simple Access Denied, telling me that I need to use Internet Explorer [ READ MORE ]