Put the knife down and take a green herb, dude. (c) Ruffin Bailey 2001-2021

Apple Now 'More Flexible', 'Less Arrogant' Reports France Telecom CEO - Mac Rumors:

“Apple has (become) more flexible, paying more attention to everyone else, probably a little less arrogant than they used to be,” France Telecom-Orange CEO Stephane Richard said during a dinner with reporters in Barcelona on Monday. Characterizing today’s Apple with the same company under Steve Jobs, Richard said, “I think they are probably a little more under pressure, and it is quite nice.”

This does not bode well for Apple, especially when you consider the wavering quality of the software coming out of Cupertino. The Exchange server bug in iOS bothered me more for what it (and Maps) tell us about the state of testing at Apple. How do they not catch that in testing if almost every medium to large-sized business that has Exchange and iOS (including the one I'm working for) did?

The Exchange bug is a variation on dogfooding. If you're going to support something -- say an email server -- you need a reasonably-representative group using it.

With the "more under pressure" comment, that's a state of being, isn't it? That is, I get the feeling the confidence of the company has changed, and that's, I'll speculate without good reason, a leadership issue.

Labels: apple fail

The variable name 'bLocalMode' begins with a prefix that looks like Hungarian notation.

Oh noes! Not Hungarian notation. Thanks for stopping my build, Style Cop!

Seriously, there isn't a single naming convention that circumvents the weaknesses of Hungarian notation "Oh no, you can put a string in a variable that calls itself an int!" Well, at least there was intention. How many times has, "temp_calendar" actually had a calendar id at one moment and the object in another or, worse, has something completely unrelated "biding time" in that variable? There's nothing about that name that requires the tie between mnemonic and meaning.

How about this example from ExtJS where I note that we have "a programmer more interested in showing off than creating self-commenting code"? Great variable names like "f" are used to represent a number of different concepts. As I concluded then, "And let's just say that variables named r,f,fi,fl,v,g are bad enough before they're reused without even a passing regard for typing." Tell me Hungarian wouldn't help there.

Say what you want about the Hungarian Notationists. At least it's an ethos, dude.

Labels: coding, Hungarian, style

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Apple has no idea how to test software, feels "under pressure" Apple Now 'More Flexible', 'Less Arrogant' Reports France Telecom CEO - Mac Rumors: “Apple has (become) more flexible, paying more attention to everyone else, probably a little less arrogant than they used to be,” France Telecom-Orange CEO Stephane Richard said during a dinner with reporters in Barcelona on Monday. Characterizing today’s Apple with the same company under Steve Jobs, Richard said, “I think they are probably a little more under pressure, and it is quite nice.” This does not bode well for Apple, especially when you consider the wavering quality of the software coming out of Cupertino. The Exchange server bug in iOS bothered me more for what it (and Maps) tell us about the state of testing at Apple. How do they not catch that in testing if almost every medium to large-sized business that has Exchange and iOS (including the one I'm working for) did? The Exchange bug is a variation on dogfooding. If you're going to support something -- say an email server -- you need a reasonably-representative group using it. With the "more under pressure" comment, that's a state of being, isn't it? That is, I get the feeling the confidence of the company has changed, and that's, I'll speculate without good reason, a leadership issue. Labels: apple fail posted by ruffin at 2/26/2013 09:01:00 AM

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
An argument for Hungarian The variable name 'bLocalMode' begins with a prefix that looks like Hungarian notation. Oh noes! Not Hungarian notation. Thanks for stopping my build, Style Cop! Seriously, there isn't a single naming convention that circumvents the weaknesses of Hungarian notation "Oh no, you can put a string in a variable that calls itself an int!" Well, at least there was intention. How many times has, "temp_calendar" actually had a calendar id at one moment and the object in another or, worse, has something completely unrelated "biding time" in that variable? There's nothing about that name that requires the tie between mnemonic and meaning. How about this example from ExtJS where I note that we have "a programmer more interested in showing off than creating self-commenting code"? Great variable names like "f" are used to represent a number of different concepts. As I concluded then, "And let's just say that variables named r,f,fi,fl,v,g are bad enough before they're reused without even a passing regard for typing." Tell me Hungarian wouldn't help there. Say what you want about the Hungarian Notationists. At least it's an ethos, dude. Labels: coding, Hungarian, style posted by ruffin at 2/19/2013 10:14:00 AM

Saturday, February 02, 2013
Little Bobby Tables (hilarious (and clean!) xkcd) From here. Brilliant. I see a mug and shirt coming out of this one. Funniest lol I've had in public in quite some time. posted by ruffin at 2/02/2013 11:39:00 AM

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