On 12/22/10 10:39 PM, CL Chow wrote:
Does anyone still do this these days? Does the market needs only drones?
Or should we succumb to be drones just because we cannot fight the
temptation of BREAD?
Do we need more people who plays golf better than code in this field?
Do we need to be guided and pampered so we can create our own Silicon
Valley?
Do we simply create a project just to get funding?
Do we simply code because we need the money?
Do we simply allow people to give us disgrace?
How many of us are aware we are falling deeper into this eternal hole
of no conscience?
Can't we code simply we just like to code?
Regards,
Just to address this poetic rant from CL, yes, indeed, we are somewhat
alike. Heck, all humans are alike in that way. Who loves a broing job
pushing pen over paper over desk day in day out? Wearing neckties that
is none of our formal descended clothing but the cold England is not my
cup of tea either.
Humans are created as creative creatures. We learn best when we hit a
bug. Well, i hope those reading this has hacked a bug till kingdom cums.
The feeling is truly orgasmic. You feel as if you own the world. Well,
at least that code you just hacked. I remembered when i got my very
first task to open the cash drawer (no not rob the cashier) by
programming it in Java. I was given the Cash Drawer code from the vendor
that says "println "" in VB to the LPT1 port and the cash drawer opens.
Heck, how do you do that from Java? As CTO it was easy for me as i
assigned a new rookie coder just joined us to the job. But after few
days he came back and said, "Jika boss pun tak leh buat, apatah lagi
mandornya". "Benawe!" i told that dumb fellow and ask him to stay at the
Futsal court with the Cashier while i return to office with the Cash
Drawer. I struggled for 2 days making that damn cash drawer to open from
within the Compiere Java application but no luck. Of course i googled
but there are overloaded info that we don't know which is which to use.
I tried until there was a somewhat indirect println command for
something else in Java contributed by some guru. But still i have to
encapsulate it within the 'Complete' button of the Java Client.
God knows, how many compile, recompile i did, keep pushing the button
but the cash drawer does not open. At last it did and you can read the
rest of the story here http://www.red1.org/compiere/POSred.zip
.
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