madbean

While I’m in bile-laden mood (see previous entry), here are two things I think were horribly mis-designed in the Java I/O API.

A friend (fiend?) pointed out that BEA’s new Weblogic 9.0 (alias “Diablo”) has a new mascot/logo.

OMGWTF!

How can a $1B Company produce such a horrible mascot; did they outsource their marketing department to a kindergarten? And “It runs like the Devil” is the slogan!? The BEA marketing department sat down, pooled their collective wit and creativity, and came up with… It runs like the Devil?!

And what’s with the jaundiced, fat-necked imp taking a wizz? Maybe in the fiery hell-hole it calls home light diffracts according to different rules, but in this plane of existance your shadow is meant to at least resemble the projection of your silhouette onto the ground. Can anyone say “MS Paint”?

This may all sound a bit harsh, and I’m not Picasso myself, but it is quite easy to find people that know how to knock up a good logo. Hell, even a cash-poor Open Source project can come up with good logos.

BPH put me onto this gem:

firefox feature of the day: in the fisheye “file search” box, right-click and select Add keyword for this search…. Add a keyword like cvs - now you can launch a fisheye quick search by typing cvs foo.java into the address bar :-D

That is an awesome feature (just typing cvs build.xml now takes me exactly to the file I’m looking for). And putting that option in the context menu for the text input box is quite intuitive.