April 7, 2004

  • Hello everyone,
    I haven't updated in a long time because I've been busy doing 2 school
    projects, besides catching up on the readings. The projects are still
    not finished and I am quite tired and frustrated after two weeks of
    work.

    One of the things that made me laugh and pissed me off at the same time
    is the installation of Visual Studio .NET 2003. M$ is known for making
    stupid mistakes but this one is the cream of the crop. Here goes the
    story: I had .NET Framework 1.1 and 1.0.xxx, Frontpage 2000 extension,
    and MSDN for Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed on my laptop, but just
    not Visual Studio .NET 2003 itself. When I popped in the first
    installation disc of Visual Studio .NET 2003, the installer tells me
    that I have an earlier version of .NET Framework installed and that I
    should uninstall it before continuing; same thing for MSDN for Visual
    Studio .NET 2003. You would expect that these components have been
    designed to work together and thus you don't need to uninstall them.
    But AHA! It's M$!!! So what I had to do is to fucking uninstall ALL
    that crap, let the VS .NET 2003 install the fucking prerequesites, THEN
    REINSTALL all the fucking .NET Framework and shit. That took me
    valuable time that I could have used on the project. Thanks for the
    fucking delay, M$. You have yet again proven that you excel in software
    engineering. And I am really happy to hear you getting shit from the EU.

    I've been using PHP in the database project and it's really quite fun.
    A good thing about PHP is it's relax syntax. You don't really need to
    worry about return types, and bla bla bla. The design of the language
    and the huge amount of public libraries allows you to write really
    clean code to dynamically generate HTML pages. BTW, there's a PHP
    coding marathon on April 24, 2004. Check out the dotgeek website for more details. Too bad it's in my exams session so I can't do it.

    On other news, SwordAngel got married to ZRuleZ, a handsome dark elf.
    However, I've been also level'ing my dark elf lately because my friend
    took back all the 1337 mage equipment that I borrowed. However, he lent
    me DE equipment instead, lol. So whatever...

    - SwordAngel