Daily misery

While I don’t consider myself as an active OS contributer, I have however in the past release/distribute codes for a couple of projects. So far, I have released two wordpress themes. I am also currently actively involve in the development of an open source event publishing system. That’s not including other misc. php and JS scripts and also my entire CS homeworks (java).

One of the many benefits of being involve in OS projects is you frequently get quick and honest feedbacks from the community/developers. I have had my fair share of the good and bad ones. Bad as in ‘you suck big time. do you even have a cs degree?’ kind of bad. Not in a very constructive way, one might say. But nevertheless, some of them are quite funny.

Here are some of the memorable ones (both good and bad):

This theme sucks … the author is clearly an ego maniac! - Joe Bloggs [link]

Great theme! Really very nice layout, soft colors, gradients and shadows. And very detailed. I like the look every pixel, even my eyes going like crazy after such a long looking in monitor. - Maryndor [link]

Wonderwall - 可愛到不行的佈景 (direct translation: cute until cannot. OK it means very good.) - Beata [link]

please excuse my English, and my anger! it is a shame! no read me, all the links point to the website of the author, it is necessary to modify all the link! worse the links are not coding! but of images which it is necessary to work over again with photoshop!! it is beautiful, but unusable! as much to do it would be even! RIDICULOUS!! (like my english :-D (sorry for google translate, i’am french and i dont speak english) - jer666 [link]

Shockingly pretty…(UNL Event Publisher) - elaine nelson [link]

I still very much enjoy getting feedbacks and feature requests. In fact I would go so far as to say it can sometimes be the only main motivator for me (i’m after all, an ego-maniac). Keep them coming, I am all about open arms.

I know I know, if you are doing things right, and if it works in Firefox, then it should work quite well in Safari. If not, I must have used some pretty f***ed up browser sniffing codes or I just don’t want what I’m doing.

I know I know, it is the first browser that passes the ACID 2 test.

I know I know, it has a pretty matured and solid JS engine.

I know I know it supports css 3, text shadow and SVG and many more advance features that a developer can only dream of in IE.

I know I know it’s faster than Firefox in Mac and looks much better too.

I know I know all these.

BUT DAMN DO I HATE THE FREAKING SAFARI AND I GONNA SAY THAT AGAIN IN FONT SIZE 72PX

*back to debugging JS bugs in safari*

When you compare the specs for OpenId and hCard, you might see two totally different things. OpenID is more like your state ID/driver license while hCard is like a business card (I suck at analogy). But they do share one common feature - an Open Standard.

Let me talk a little about OpenID. First, OpenID is not a trust system. You can’t build trust if you don’t have an identity. That’s what OpenID gives you - an identity. That’s also why analogically, it’s a state ID, not a master keycard that gives you access to all department doors (assuming you’re a CIA). Many social sites now support OpenID - livejournal.com, zooomr, Hampr, ma.gnolia, technorati and many more. It also has a wide range of code libraries that let you implement your own OpenID server and whatnots. Here’s how it works:

First, register an OpenID with one of the many free OpenID servers out there. I use myopenid.com. To associate your own site with the ID, instead of having to sign on using the default yourname.myopenid.com, add the following tags to the header of your web page.

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Story of the week:
After reading Joel on software, especially on the chapter where there was a huge exodus of Windows developers due to the ridiculous amount of work they had to put in just so they could support multiple version of Windows when Microsoft decided to break backward compatibility by going from Win API -> Win 16 bit -> Win 32 Bit - > WinFS, suddenly I feel like a crying baby for all the whines and bitchings I’ve had over the years about browsers differences / incompetence. At least on the web, browsers are actually heading to the right direction, conforming more to the web standards as they evolve (css improvement, better DHTML supports(IE 7), improved XSLT support(safari) ).

TV of the week:
Tonight Niptuck’s finale is all about the awesomeness. Great ending and the drama has matured over the years. Great finale song too. They pretty much did a free MTV for whoever the singer is.

LOL of the week:
“Tyron Honeybee would be my gay porn movie name” said Steven Colbert just now on his Report show. I need to stop watching the Report. Not healthy for the heart.

Quote of the week:

The answer to “Why doesn’t this feature exist?” is usually “By default features don’t exist. Somebody has to implement them.”

It’s not like every feature you can think of comes out of your brain fully tested and implemented, and then some PM somewhere files a bug to have your feature removed. Features start out nonexistent and somebody has to make them happen.

Raymond Chen, Microsoft senior developer
23-JUN-2005

Photo of the week:

WTF of the week:
There are two entries actually. It’s amazing how out-of-the-world some people can get these days.