If I haven’t blabbed your ear off already, OpenRain has a small business web presence product called the Online Business Platform. It’s a big deal as it’s fairly unique in many different ways.
Anyway, the the upper service level options include consulting and advisement on advertising with Google AdWords, which means we generally need access to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rant’
Google AdWords Account Access: A Cacophony Of Stupid
July 17th, 2009
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Major Seagate/Maxtor Fail
January 30th, 2009
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It’s Friday, 10pm, and I’m not a happy camper. This picture is me holding a pile of ordinary hard drives I keep on my home desk. They are cycling backup drives and are not in any way frequently used. Four are Seagate Barracudas–one of which I’ve already had replaced–and the fifth a Maxtor DiamondMax. The oldest of [...]
Netgear FVS114 – Worst POS SOHO Router Ever
June 6th, 2008
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Some of the worst infrastructural issues OpenRain has had since inception has been border hardware. We’ve been through all typical COTS models you’d find at Best Buy, but all have had issues with at least one of..
Dropping inbound traffic due to some stupid “DDoS Protection” feature we couldn’t disable.
Not passing VPN traffic though to an [...]
Five Major Apple Design Irritants
May 26th, 2008
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Apple,
My software development firm–OpenRain in Arizona–spends buckets of money on your products. Stuff works pretty well in general, but you really need to address these issues. Really.
PowerBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro power supply cables invariably rip. Not only that, but it’s always at the same freaking places. The MackBook/Pro power supplies are better than the [...]
JXTA: Not The Solution To Java Peer Discovery
April 14th, 2007
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Only developers with hair should use JXTA, because those with bald or shaven heads won’t have anything to violently rip from their skulls while they develop with it. I have been, and continue to be excited by, JXTA’s potential, but have been very disappointed at the pace at which a project progresses when using it. [...]
Please Stop Saying "Google Simple"
March 18th, 2007
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It should be generally assumed that designs should be as simple as possible. So if you’re working directly with a competent designer, you need not say so. If your designer does not hold this as a core working principle, get a new one.
Client: “We’d like you to design a next-generation car dashboard for our new [...]
Why Outlook Sucks: Part 2 of 900,000
February 28th, 2007
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Note: Yes, this is still on an older version of Outlook because that’s what I’ve had to use. Please feel free to contribute to this series in your own blog via trackback/ping, and I’ll post links en mass to the front page when I get enough!
Let’s delete a folder to which messages are directed via [...]
Why Outlook Sucks: Part 1 of 900,000
February 23rd, 2007
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Let’s find an email from Toni regarding her party next weekend. There appears to be a search box in the toolbar.
Wait.. that seems to be only for contacts. Nevermind.
There’s a find button to the left which brings up a toolbar, but it appears to search only the Inbox. Unfortunately I have a bazillion folders and [...]
Singletons Cause Cancer
July 11th, 2006
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It’s been said before. I’ll say it again. The singleton pattern sucks. From a pragmatic point of view, it has two primary drawbacks: reuse and testability.
Reuse
A public static getInstance() method is, by definition, statically bound at compile time. Since you can’t override static methods, reusing singleton code via inheritance means you’ll need to create a [...]
