Comments for Vague Hope http://vaguehope.com Musings of a displaced marine biologist Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:15:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on MQTT Kindlet by Roger http://vaguehope.com/2012/01/mqtt-kindlet/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Roger Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:15:43 +0000 http://vaguehope.com/?p=307#comment-265 Very nice! Could you check the "clean session" connection option for your client? I think it should be set to true because you're using a randomly generated client id because otherwise the broker remembers information for a client that will never appear again. Very nice!

Could you check the “clean session” connection option for your client? I think it should be set to true because you’re using a randomly generated client id because otherwise the broker remembers information for a client that will never appear again.

]]> Comment on MQTT Kindlet by Andy Piper (@andypiper) http://vaguehope.com/2012/01/mqtt-kindlet/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Andy Piper (@andypiper) Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:49:56 +0000 http://vaguehope.com/?p=307#comment-262 Excellent work Alex, thanks for that - I think I can basically only take credit for pointing you at the "how to" guides, the MQTT client, and supplying suggestions and enthusiasm :-) love it! Excellent work Alex, thanks for that – I think I can basically only take credit for pointing you at the “how to” guides, the MQTT client, and supplying suggestions and enthusiasm :-) love it!

]]> Comment on Perform: Programming by Rosco http://vaguehope.com/2012/01/perform-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Rosco Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:39:12 +0000 http://vaguehope.com/?p=281#comment-187 I have, for a long time, admired and respected elegance and fluidity in programming, of all kinds, and abhorred poor, sloppy programming. To much these days is a terrible mess, and too hastily done. Gone are the days when you HAD to make it as efficient as possible because otherwise it just wouldn't run. Only a very few software developers still build to those standards, rather than what appears on the surface to be a rushed job, where cost is prioritized over a good job. It seems a shame, but is, unfortunately, necessary it seems to compete. I have, for a long time, admired and respected elegance and fluidity in programming, of all kinds, and abhorred poor, sloppy programming.

To much these days is a terrible mess, and too hastily done. Gone are the days when you HAD to make it as efficient as possible because otherwise it just wouldn’t run.
Only a very few software developers still build to those standards, rather than what appears on the surface to be a rushed job, where cost is prioritized over a good job.

It seems a shame, but is, unfortunately, necessary it seems to compete.

]]> Comment on Perform: Programming by Ian http://vaguehope.com/2012/01/perform-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Ian Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:34:00 +0000 http://vaguehope.com/?p=281#comment-186 Part of the problem is that it's the *application* that's accessible to the public, not the code itself. Though people may not be remembered for good code, there are many who are remembered for good applications -- Bill Gates, Steve Jobs etc. The reason it's a problem is that a Mozart symphony or a van Gogh painting are essentially the work of one person who rightly gets credit. Very few applications are written by one person -- it's the architect of the app that gets the credit, when a horde of programmers, UX people, testers, documentation-writers and others may have contributed to it. On the other hand, programming is definitely a better choice than painting or music for people who *don't* turn out to be the great Masters of their art. The world is full of "just good" programmers who make a decent living compared to the hardship of the mediocre painter. Part of the problem is that it’s the *application* that’s accessible to the public, not the code itself. Though people may not be remembered for good code, there are many who are remembered for good applications — Bill Gates, Steve Jobs etc. The reason it’s a problem is that a Mozart symphony or a van Gogh painting are essentially the work of one person who rightly gets credit. Very few applications are written by one person — it’s the architect of the app that gets the credit, when a horde of programmers, UX people, testers, documentation-writers and others may have contributed to it.

On the other hand, programming is definitely a better choice than painting or music for people who *don’t* turn out to be the great Masters of their art. The world is full of “just good” programmers who make a decent living compared to the hardship of the mediocre painter.

]]> Comment on Developing on Android by Peter F Weller http://vaguehope.com/2011/09/developing-on-android/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Peter F Weller Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:05:35 +0000 http://vaguehope.com/?p=254#comment-126 Have you considered using something like http://compilr.com/? Have you considered using something like http://compilr.com/?

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