Jim decided to respond to my post regarding language vs. language debates, specifically looking at PHP and Ruby / Ruby on Rails. He makes some good points, but there is some stuff that I’d like to respond to and clarify…
To say that one language is better than the other is meaningless. Better in what way? [...]
Category Archives: Rants
Comment Spam
04-Jun-07Ugh, comment/trackback spam has really been going crazy the past 2-3 months for me. Up until that point, Akismet counted around 1,000 for me (for awhile it kept resetting its counter). Anyhow, once the flood doors opened for me, which was around 2 months ago, that count has quickly gone up:
Akismet has caught [...]
My language is better then yours …
22-May-07(Fair warning, if you aren’t a nerd, you might want to skip this post)
Are we (programmers, developers, engineers) still really having these debates? Give me a break. Java vs. .NET, Java vs. PHP, .NET vs. PHP, now Ruby on Rails vs. PHP.
The other day, Jeremy, sent me these. They’re a series of [...]
U-Haul has awful customer service
27-Mar-07Pretty mad about my whole experience with U-Haul at the moment. So I’ll simply show the letter I am sending to their contact forms and mailing off as soon as I can locate their corporate office address:
In short, your customer service is horrible.
On Sunday, March 25th, I placed an order/reservation on your website for [...]
Corporate America
25-Jul-06I’ve been invited to join in an alarming number of class action lawsuits lately. Normally I would say this is just a case of American’s being law-suit happy, but honestly, given recent experiences with insane “corporate policies,” poor customer service (that’s putting it nicely), among other things … it makes me wonder if this [...]