Posts by Tin Foil Hat

Oracle and Java: Mobile dev FAIL dooms Ellison's future

Huh?

From the bar chart presented, 49% of developers are doing desktop/client server apps. I would have thought that a competent java desktop developer could handle developing android apps.

So a career in java is very secure, you have all the server side stuff and many can make the change to android if there is money to be made.

The trouble is I don't think there is anywhere near as much money available to develop mobile apps compared to server/desktop apps. So ignore the hype about the mobile platform and stick to the less glamorous but better paying markets?

Openistas question UK.gov's £300k crime-mapping website

Crap

You have to laugh. I had a look at the source of the home page. Great big plug for the folks that developed it http://www.rkh.co.uk

More fun when I validated the page. http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.police.uk%2F

7 errors, and this is from supposed professional web developers?

Total waste of money. All that was needed is some data export (csv, json etc) and let us analyse the data however we want, not some spoon feed BS from civil servants.

ICO chides TalkTalk over sneaky StalkStalk trials

How long

How long will it be, until this fancy "monitoring" service changes into a fancy ad replacement service? Replacing ads supplied by the site I visit with ads based on the profile my ISP has made? All done in the name of safety, of course.

There is a lot of money in ads and I am sure ISP's would love a fat slice of it.

Gordon Brown joins World Wide Web Foundation

He gets paid but does not attend.

Since the 6th of May Gordon has a 0% attendance record

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Gordon_Brown&mpc=Kirkcaldy_and_Cowdenbeath&house=commons&display=allvotes

Lazy sod can't be asked to turn up but still expects us poor saps to pay his salary and expenses. What a complete fraud he is.