Posted by Jorge Bernal March 17, 2006
Lately, I’ve been hooked on The daily WTF as they provide creepy stories of the modern “professional” software [under]development.
But today, I’ve found the #1:
From the programmer made famous by tblCalendar and the query string parameter admin=false comes what I think is the most creatively stupid implementation of a test environment ever.
The final lines made me feel the actual pain…
Having personally seen this system, I want to share a fun little fact about it. It requires that, among a handful of other desktop applications, Adobe Indesign is installed on the web server. I’ll leave it to your imagination as to what it could possibly require that for and the number of seconds between each interval that it opens and closes it.
So I proudly present: The Developmestuction Environment
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Posted by Jorge Bernal March 15, 2006
Corey, I totally agree with Launchpad is hurting Ubuntu except for this:
PS. This really has nothing to do with the license (or lack there of) that Launchpad is under. No, really. The UI would suck just as hard if it was open source.
If Launchpad code were under a free license (or at least its code was available), I’d have sent lots of patches for some issues. And I want to believe I’m not the only one.
I agree the LP developers are a great staff, but IMHO they are too few people to fix all the issues. Also, there is mpt, who is doing a great job on usability for launchpad, but only one person for the entire beast?
The problem may be to have started using launchpad too early. Bugzilla is another beast and has its flaws, but it works for a lot of projects. CVS for translations may not be the most user-friendly way to translate software, but GNOME gets translated to a lot of languages each six months (and with really high quality).
Willing to make an enterprise-ready and user-friendly distribution, while using it as a guinea pig for a new (untested before) infrastructure… not a good idea folks.
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Posted by Jorge Bernal March 12, 2006
I think I can say now, at least, I know how transistors work
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Posted by Jorge Bernal March 07, 2006
Yesterday I looked at the GNOME bugzilla. I found some of my old bugs. I found the Default icon in GNOME menus issue, fixed in Hoary.
The bug for this one is #76495 and has been there since 2002. I sent my patch and icon even before I sent to Ubuntu maintainer, but last comment on the bug is almos 1 year old and it’s still open.
Sad enough? I have more: #166504
The main problem with old bugs like this is I’d bet the patches don’t apply anymore.
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Posted by Jorge Bernal March 01, 2006
After some time trying OSX, I noticed a small feature that I liked a lot. When you are in a terminal, you can use open foo/bar/file.ext to open it with the default application.
Fortunately, this is not only an OSX feature. We have the same stuff, it’s called gnome-open and it has been there for a while.
The problem is that gnome-open is too large as a shortcut for frequent use, so you can add the following to your ~/.bashrc:
alias open='gnome-open'
Warning: there is already a command called open, which is in fact a link to openvt. Please notice that this can affect some existing scripts.
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