Archives for February 2009
Nice car colours
Some cars look good only in certain colours. Here’s my list:
BMW 3 Series: black
BMW 5 Series: black
Chevrolet Aveo: red or green
Chevrolet Optra: black or red
Chevrolet Nabira: black
Honda Accord: black
Honda City (2002): bluish silver
Honda City (2008): black
Honda Civic: black or bluish silver
Hyundai Elantra: black
Hyundai Getz: black
Kia Optima: black
Kia Picanto/Naza Suria: red
Kia Spectra: black
Mercedes C-Class: silver
Mercedes E-Class: […]
Overheard in KL (2)
Worker #1: “Let’s just call a pig a pig, OK?”
Worker #2: “I think the saying goes, ‘call a spade a spade.’”
Worker #1: “Yeah … that’s the halal version.”
OOP and Democracy
I would like to highlight some similarities that I see between object oriented programming (OOP) and democracy.
First, both are systems of government: one to organize political power, the other to organize code.
Second, both are children of history, borne out of a need to overcome fundamental weaknesses of previous systems. Democracy seeks to avoid the concentration […]
Complaining
You can’t stop people from complaining. You can, however, stop complaining about people complaining.
Reblog: What is enterprise software?
(Or perhaps the title should be “Sour grapes: A .NET and PHP programmer’s rant against J2EE”. Heh.)
Read my post, What is enterprise software? on UI Blues.
But seriously, folks: after all the talk about multi-tier, modular, scalable blah blah blah, in the end it comes down to whether or not there’s a Unix box in the […]