"Since I started to work with Ruby, being involved in several projects, contributing, giving support or maintaining Windows version of those packages, this is the first time a bug report made my day: [#22347] One-click installer requires more than one click Enough said, irony on a side, I completely agree with the statement. Too many clicks required to install something named One-Click Installer. Thank you anonymous submitter for your feedback. :-D"
- imabonehead
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This is an interesting article where the author checks all the major browsers testing DOM selection and manipulation using the main JS libraries. Chrome is not as good as you might think.
- John Daly
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"It turns out that Google Chrome reached 6th place ahead the poor IE6 only, 49% slower than the fastest browser: Opera 9.5."
- LiquidLag
@Rudolf it has a nice gratification system so everyone is interested in asking smart questions and providing good answers. Most questions get a solid response within minutes. And cause of the close beta there are nearly no trolls. But I'm afraid this will change when stackoverflow goes public.
- Peter Hoffmann
just signed up for the beta .. hopefully get an invite soon
- John Daly
I'm not on the beta, but would like to be. Maybe I can bribe Jeff Atwood with good wine or beer.
- DGentry
I have to say I am a YUI guy too although LiquidLag is a right if you need the a more feature rich library you would be hard pressed to find one better than Dojo.
- John Daly
I like YUI also, the base libraries have a better architecture and the extensibility points are easier to work with. Their libraries just make more sense from an OO perspective too.
- Vince
Are certifications important ... I have seen many certified programmers that can't program a lick?
- John Daly
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I have been told by my recruiter that certifications don't mean as much as they did a few years after the bubble burst. Employers were looking for a way to determine who was serious about tech and who was just hanging on. Certifications were an easy way to do this but now a lot of those people have already been weeded out. I still think I would like to get the SCJP but it is not as much of a goal as it used to be.
- Vince
* Runtime (where data is retained always and accessible through reflection), * Class (data is kept in byte code, not accessible at runtime), and * Source level (not kept by compiler).
- LiquidLag
This was really informative. I can't wait to start using annotations.
- John Daly
The speedup gained from running a program on a parallel computer is greatly limited by the fraction of that program that can’t be parallelized.
- LiquidLag
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. -- Seen this too many times.
- LiquidLag
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
- LiquidLag
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
- LiquidLag
People under time pressure don’t think faster.
- LiquidLag
Haver to agree with most of these comments
- John Daly