Purposive without Foresight

ORM, like many other technologies facilitating the software development, is not inherently good or bad. IMHO, any bashing or flattering to the technology itself makes little sense. Instead, discussion about “good use” and/or “misuse” given concrete context might be the better way of improving our software development.
Most important thing is to know the [...]

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I’m really buried in the exam stuff these days. To people who came with expectation of finding new interesting stuff, I’m sorry that I was not in the mood for posting new blog entries for a while. I even don’t want to say “I didn’t have time” any more, a simple fact is that [...]

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Last Saturday Dirk showed me where he studied and lived in Mannheim. We visited Univ. Mannheim, which is called “Germany’s Harvard” on their website. I never visited Harvard and don’t really know univ. Mannheim well, can’t say how similar they two are. Like all the univ. campuses I’ve seen in Europe, univ. Mannheim is [...]

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I am not a soccer fan at all. However I did watch two matches in FIFA 06. Germany vs Italy the day before yesterday and France vs Portugal yesterday.
The Germany vs Italy match was absolute exciting. I never knew soccer match can be that fast-paced and brain-involved, until 2 days ago any soccer match [...]

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I happened to had a look at this thread: Ted Neward explains ORM as “The Viet Nam of Computer Science”. You can see the complete context there or via the links there. Here are my thoughts:
1. To many east Asians (the region where many software developers are come from. And more and more), the Viet [...]

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