Every smile you fake ...
... we'll be watching you. Sting rules
And Pink Floyd, of course. But they are out of competition anyway.
Archive 3. July 2005
Objects and Functions with JavaScript
Since the OO aspect of JavaScript is often overlooked, here's a text about Object Hierarchy and Inheritance in JavaScript.
I myself have been a fan of this approach to OO since my first encounters with prototype-based OO languages like Self and NewtonScript - the pigeonhole thinking of class-based OO approaches is often restrictive, especially when modeling real-world objects.
By the way, JavaScript also has a whole lot of other nice features that are often overlooked - first and foremost the nice anonymous functions, through which Closures in JavaScript are realized. And higher-order programming can also be implemented with it.
If you now combine Prototype-OO and Higher-Order-Programming, something like Prototype might come out - a library for JavaScript with a lot of interesting extensions such as elegant Ajax bindings, simpler callback construction and many other toys. Another possibility could arise from Bob Ippollitos MochiKit, if it is ever published (and lives up to the hype).
Prototype, by the way, requires a lot of imagination as to what can be done with it - there is no documentation after all.
Open-Source Blabbermouth
Eric Raymond claims the GPL could harm the success of Open Source:
Eric S. Raymond told Federico Biancuzzi of the Italian Linux magazine Linux&C during the international forum for free software in Brazil that the General Public License could hinder the progress of Open Source.
What lies behind this is of course only his boundless stupidity and craving for attention and the constant inferiority complex towards Richard Stallman - because unlike Eric, Richard has a concept and a consistent idea. Regardless of how one stands on what Richard Stallman says - one must acknowledge that he has a line and pursues it clearly.
Eric Raymond, on the other hand, falls for cheers that he is a millionaire and other stupid remarks - and thereby threatens other open source people like Bruce Perens. And otherwise talks a lot of nonsense.
Abolishing the GPL would be a very stupid idea, because in many areas it is precisely the GPL that protects open source projects - just look at the current GPL violations. If the corresponding sources were under the BSD license, no one would care and the topic would be done - companies would simply help themselves cheaply and that would be it.
But Eric Raymond has never understood the difference between free software and free beer ...
Shit hits Fan
The recently published Sharp Internet Explorer Exploit should make it clear to Microsoft that their stance on the recent IE hole was a bit overly naive. They should have released a patch instead of just an advisory. Ideally, a patch that completely removes Internet Explorer.
T-Mobile is stupid
Honestly. It was only during the first stage with a bunch sprint that I really realized how stupid they are. Sure, Zabel didn't often win stages - but he was constantly at the front when it came to the bunch sprint. And that's how the sponsor was constantly shown at the front. At every sprint finish. Great for advertising. And now? Nothing.
As I said, they are rarely stupid.
Further Dismantling of the Right to Education
The time about the withdrawal of the federal states from free teaching materials - because the tuition fees are not sufficient to protect the citizens' sons and daughters from the dirty worker children. It could be that one of them is so good that they receive one of the few scholarships - so we make sure in advance that they don't even get the chance to come that far.
Education is our highest good - and it is increasingly restricted. The prices for specialist literature have risen sharply and will be problematic for many parents. I know from my own family environment (and also from my own experience of my school days) how restricted pupils become when their parents cannot always bring in the money as the school expects - this is further exacerbated by the purchase of school books. Some parents will certainly consider whether to send their children to grammar school or rather let them skip the three additional years of schooling - with an even greater workload of necessary textbooks than in the previous stages.
The direction taken here is fundamentally wrong. This cannot simply be explained by a false understanding of savings; in some cases, intent must be assumed, as the parts that were once introduced to ensure equal opportunities for workers and their families are now being dismantled so massively.