The Last Cigar, Day 8, 8/22/2010 – Java and Microsoft Technology Sucks

Ok...You know when you your stomach gets upset and it doesn't hit you till your going to sleep or some time while your asleep? It's like it says....Ha ha ha...F.U., gotcha now sucka. That is happening to me right now, I pulled an all nighter fighting technology demons (more on that in a minute). I ate the most delicious ribeye at my parents house yesterday...dude, it was slow roasted on the grill (not sure if you can roast on the grill) and it was like a huge shank, not a cut up steak, so it was like we were cooking a bite sized piece of meat for a great white, but with a perfect blend of herbs and juices. Ok so my mother makes this sauce that can send you into a state of delusion, perhaps euphoria, kind of like this guy if you know who he is ....

The SAUCE, was made of blue cheese crumbles and HEAVY CREAM, heated and mixed together. Ladies and gentleman, my mother is REALLY a great cook. She's Italian and from Italy, so that's a +1 in the cooking department, and she studies recipes and stuff and has a gagillion years practice. So maybe she's 1 pip short of a chef, so I know everyone is biased toward their mother, but honest to Pete, she kills in the kitchen man. I know, who gives a sh*t, we'll cover more recipes later this year....The point is I ate too much sauce today, and the heavy cream was delicious but bad, but some pepto just cured it.

Ok, but I didn't overeat on purpose, I did restrict my portions!

You Know Java? You Know .NET? Here's a list of fun times I had tonight wrestling with this stuff.

- I downloaded Jave EE server 6 (Glassfish version who knows) from Oracles web site....hahaha, you think that server worked? WRONG. You install it, then go to the menu to start/stop the server, run updates and other functions and after you stop the server one time, all the menu functionality DISAPPEARS miraculously by the shortcuts not working, so you gotta go and run the .exe's by command line to start/stop server and use other functions. This held me up about 2 hours

-Here's a doosey, I'm trying to learn to do all this enterprise development and I have a tutorial that demo's everything through an ide called netbeans...but for some UNGODLY reason, netbeans was not reading the above glassfish server...and I did everything possible to get that server tied to netbeans to complete my tutorial examples...no dice....2 hours.

-I go through my entire c: drive and wipe out all instances of Glassfish server, all Java EE 6 anthing from my drive etc and all netbeans files to start fresh. Great, there is hope now that I've deleted all the poison on my system and can start fresh.

- I get to downloading NETBEANS with a glassfish server bundled into the download and who knows why, the thing just stops downloading at around 160 meg...30 mins wasted.

- I end up getting Netbeans and configuring the glassfish server to work with netbeans (success) and I actually ran a Java Server Face application example in my tutorial, but before that worked....LO AND BEHOLD, PORT 8080 was not working (That's what you type in to load your web apps locally)...what could it be? That's right ladies and gents...Oracle database server 10g handily starts it's self up whenever your computer re-starts, so naturally it uses PORT 8080. So I figured this out in 3 minutes because I ran into this problem before. But I KNOW, some poor dude is out there in HELL because he did everything right, followed the book example, packaged and deployed his web app, directed his browser to http://localhost:8080/whatever and is crying because he can't get his web page to come up because of oracle or another service using the port. And the error message he receives is total BS and won't help him.

-Ok microsoft...I'll spare you the details, I installed Visual Studio Ultimate but it wouldn't install for some unknown reason (after wasting about 4 hours trying to install) So what did I have to do? WIPE EVERY INSTANCE OF .NET RUNTIME Framework AND SQL SERVER OBJECTS on my computer out that were previously installed. Oh, and then it decided to install after 4-5 hours wasted...and I still got some dumb error message coming up all the time... .net runtime optimazation service has stopped working, blah, blah, thanks for nothing.

-PEACE OUT.