Ryan Tomayko

Message: Re: [rest-discuss] REST-* —

Whoa. There’s some serious shit poppin' off on the rest-discuss mailing list lately. Here’s Roy Fielding (completely out of context):

Quite frankly, this is the single dumbest attempt at one-sided “standardization” of anti-REST architecture that I have ever seen. It even manages to one-up the previous all-time-idiocy of IBM when they renamed their CORBA toolkit “Web Services” in a deliberate attempt to confuse customers into thinking they had something to do with the Web.

It doesn’t get any better from there :) I saw the REST-* site a few weeks ago but I (literally) thought it was a joke site. The sad thing is that, if the past is a predictor of the future, Jboss/Redhat will probably be able to convince a large chunk of enterprise IT managers that they are REST.

App disqualified from App Store because it 'duplicates iTunes functionality' —

“An iPhone developer who created an app that manages and plays podcasts says the app was disqualified from the App Store because ‘it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.’ That’s right, iTunes for the desktop.”

And the overwhelming majority of comments are actually in support of Apple’s decision, change the subject, or attack the author. Amazing.

The Two Types of Programmers —

From IMil in comments: “Shocking statement #(n+1): 80% of the 80% believe that they belong to [the] 20%.” A recursively shocking statement! i.e., (0..Infinity).inject (0.8) { |x,n| x * 0.8 }

Gonzales proposes new crime: "Attempted" copyright infringement [news.com] —

“Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including ‘attempts’ to commit piracy.”

Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX? —

Is anyone actually falling for this crap? “‘The goal is to make it so people never have to see code’, said Gosling.” — Gag Me!

Agile Enterprise Architecture: Why I Can't Take Smalltalk Seriously —

These people are still around? Amazing. Ooohhh, “tens of thousands of simultaneous users” — scary! scary!

W3C Markup Validator Results for "You, me and the W3C (aka Reinventing HTML)" —

Chairing the WG is one way to fix your validation issues! (yes, I’m just being mean now — ignore me. no but seriously.)

Can't save in Google Docs? Disable Firebug! —

Grrrrr. This has been driving me crazy for almost two weeks. I don’t understand why the main google search doesn’t include google groups – I thought the whole point was to put everything behind a single search box. Bha.

Microsoft exec called software developers 'pawns' —

“I mean, all through this presentation previously, I talked about how you’re using the pawns and you’re going to screw them if they don’t do what you want, and dah-dah-dah. You can’t let them feel like that.” and “So you can’t let them feel like pawns, no

CASEBUILDER™ SOA —

This is too funny: “… provides you with the verbiage you need to explain SOA to non-technical people and ‘sell’ its long-term strategic benefits.”

National Review's Best and Worst of Times —

Saying the US is divided is an understatement – the country exists simultaneously in two parallel worlds and is connected only by a small machine that shoots newspapers clippings back and forth. The National Review exists in the other one.

Good Math, Bad Math : Nullity - the Nonsense Number —

That’s what I’m saying. As soon as I saw this guy talking about auto-pilot software crashing a plane due to division by zero, I thought: 5 / 0 rescue nil wtf are you talking about? We’ve had exception handling, conditionals, and NaN forever.

UniveRSS - a 3D Vista RSS reader —

Prediction: Microsoft will use 3D nonsensically and egregiously for the next two years. 3D notepad!

Flight 93 (movie about 9/11) Trailor —

Nice to see hollywood capitalizing on national crisis so soon. Bastards.

Orange Billion Dollars —

Gha!

Okay, James Gosling isn't really this ignorant... —

Yes he is! He seems to not understand even fundamental F/OSS licensing concepts and always throws up that same “Open Source = everyone can check in anything” strawman.

Not Elegant? —

Patrick Logan calls bullshit on a BUILDER.COM article on “scripting languages”… Quick list dynamic language misconceptions: inelegant, fragile, unprofessional, only used by monkeys..

IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED." —

Actual evidence that Bush lied and forced others to lie about intelligence from Iraq so that we could go to war.