dragoncortez's Journal: Web Programming at its finest

About two and a half years ago when I was prepping for my final semester of college, I signed up for a web programming class. The course would mostly be using Java (applets, servlets, swing, etc, etc,), and although I'd been programming mostly in PHP at work, I figured it would be a breeze. The homework assignments were, the exams were not (due to never ever bothering to attend the lectures). In the last couple of months, I have discovered once again that web programming is more involved than it looks on the surface. I really hate it when I underestimate a project. The good side of things is that I still have a job and that I'm a lot better at it.

If we ever actually launch our product, I'll post a link here for everyone to try it out. The last I heard, our marketing department was still going ahead with a "free for Linux users" campaign. I'm not sure if free means free for a year, for two years, or for as long as we're in charge of the company, but I do know that the last I heard we were counting pretty heavily on viral marketing to move this thing.

Is anyone else as displeased with Firefox 0.9 as I am? I mean I know I'm critiquing free software and that it's not even to a full 1.0 release yet, but that themes manager sucks eggs. And where's the support for users (not developers)? Maybe I should apply my vast repertoire of web programming skills to helping out the team. ;)

I actually had more I was going to say, but everything I've posted so far is related to web stuff, and I'm so rarely that coherent in my posts, I'd hate to ruin it.

web stuff et al

[FortKnox]

I'm a web developer (J2EE... mostly intranets for financial institutions), and, yeah, there is a LOT most people miss when designing web apps.

And I upgraded to firefox 0.9 at work. It crashes and dumps like mad. The most important extension I add (tabs extension) causes the 0.9 version to crash on loadup. That made it totally not worth it. When I get a chance to relax a bit at work, I'm totally uninstalling so I can reinstall 0.8.

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[dragoncortez]

A friend of mine at work mentioned that tabs extension problem. He also has an extension that analyzes web pages (I can't remember the exact name, I know that it will outline divs and tables as well as a bunch of other cool stuff), and it wouldn't work for him either. Needless to say, I won't be updating firefox anywhere else anytime soon. I'll bet bugzilla is crazy today. :)