This week at my Clark-Kent-day-job, I was working with JQuery, which is usually a pleasure. However, in this particular occasion, Microsoft, circa 2001, stepped in and defecated all over my happy times.

I always hate when I’m reminded why I don’t like some technology. Today I was working with Java 5 and specifically a pre-Java 5 xml_rpc API similar to Apache XML-RPC. I made some incorrect assumptions about the return value of a particular rpc call. I was confident that it returned an array of strings (which is translated into a list of strings in Java) - but in fact it returns an array of structs (which is translated into a list of maps).

The consistently rude are being consistent again, as yet-another-chain of comments on Javalobby shows how internet criticism flows so freely.

Life’s funny; today in my Google Reader tally I ran across this post by Steven Wittens - titled ‘On not doing Drupal anymore’, and it helped put some personal frustrations in to perspective for me on the concept of ‘burnout’ in the modern open development age.

As detailed in this CNET News Feature (and as most technically-minded people could have guessed), there have been several minor to middle-of-the-road problems with the most recent daylight saving change.

I know that I’m not the only one that feels like Congress is taking a somewhat-uneducated stab at this - toying with something that has pretty significant repercussions for many of us without having a real idea of the benefits.

It looks like I’m not the only one that had Dreamhost problems - when I first moved to Dreamhost, I saw astronomical uptime numbers similar to what Daviey saw. While these numbers are actually normalized to the number of CPUs (as opposed to 1.00 as he mentions), 430+ is not exactly acceptable.

I follow most of the Eclipse development mailing-lists because they are low-traffic, and typically only carry conversations relevant to the development side, as opposed to the storm of questions and puzzlers that hit the newsgroups. Periodically you will receive a “Hey, how can I do this?” followed briefly by a “Please ask further questions on the newsgroup”.

How do you improve Drupal performance on Dreamhost? It’s a trick question - the answer is move to MediaTemple.

If you’re reading this, then you have hit the new MediaTemple(dv)-hosted Realjenius.com - and you have met one much happier R.J.

Ars Technica is covering the news that Sun Microsystems has signed up to become a Microsoft Windows OEM. I don’t know how to take this except for ‘Wha..?’.

Why is it, that when given a keyboard, a monitor, and an internet connection, some people feel that they have the right/priviledge/obligation to be a total ass in the face of any criticism or comment.