now @ www.roblittle.ca

Hi everyone,

Yes it has been a while since I posted, however I have been a busy little (no pun intended).

My new site is up (not fully done/re-designed yet, nor fully functional) however, it is up. This blog has been transfered in its entirety (yes, the whole two posts I had made previous to this), and will now continue to be hosted through my main site. NEW site’s main –> www.roblittle.ca

NEW blog location
This is just a last message here, on the wordpress.com hosted blog, to inform everyone where I’m now at.

iwant iphone

Yes. Original title conveying a unique request…

i want i phone I NOW!!!

I find it ridiculous the data rates the cell carriers get away with charging us Canadians. Are you kidding me? And it is ROGERS DATAPLAN that is preventing the iphone from being launched here right now, as far as I can infer.

This is retarded. My brother is traveling S.E. Asia right now. That in itself is something to be moderately jealous of. However, he purchased a pay and talk GSM phone in malaysia, and some pay and talk minutes… roughly the equivalent of 20 bucks or so. He then called LONG DISTANCE – INTERNATIONAL to myself, my folks multiple times, grandparents, and i’m sure a few of his hoochies and or hoodrats, all for less than I can download 7MB a month.

SEVEN MB A MONTH COSTS US 40 FREAKING DOLLARS??? AND EVERY OTHER MB ON TOP IS 6 BUCKS?

and wow, the breakneck rate of 150kb transfer rates.

http://www.comparecellular.com/compare_data_rateplans.asp?l=&CarrierID=10

So, to review: a pay and talk cell in asia, w/ enough minutes to call at your leisure, your family located internationally, costs INCREMENTALLY LESS than our Canadian ability to download the equivalent of one decent mp3.

I believe Canada pays the highest data rates in the WORLD… and it’s this highway robbery that is preventing me from owning an iphone.

Listen guys… i’m BEGGING to give you like 600 freaking dollars, just so i can have the uber-coolness associated with owning the only phone with a user interface worth actually USING.

and how many products do you know of, that launch in the U.S., then the U.K. before Canada… I mean really.

I guess our only hope (our, referring to the increasingly annoyed GSM community of Canada, or iphone-ambition holding CDMA peeps) is for another carrier, one of the CDMA’s that is expanding into dual network support, OR a new GSM startup, to undercut the knob-gobblers in Rogers who REFUSE to lower the datarates to play ball with Apple’s iphone contract.

As the article on Canada.com from earlier this week argues; Consider the following hypothetical (but not unrealistic) situation: People, or another company, start up a cell phone company, offering GSM service, that contacts APPLE and agrees to what ever conditions apple is demanding of it’s GSM carriers.

If they did this, and launched… Canada would then have a fourth cell phone company overnight, as (i would guess) almost a million iphones would be sold in a short amount of time. I mean, considering how many sold in the U.S. (taking into account AT&T’s market share, and their numbers on sales released), the million Canadian iphone mark wouldn’t be that unrealistic, no?

*K i’m back from my dream and fantasy*

Anyway… I count thy days and hold my breath

bitter… iphone-less rob, out.

p.s. New article from financial post re: iphone.

p.p.s. Monday July 23rd article re: iphone.

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The noob in PowerBuilder

A month into my first ever official ‘real’ job, and some comments and thoughts Rob does have.

Firstly… Office Work. Loving it. No more hot / steamy / gross / sweaty kitchens populated primarily with coke heads and alcoholics, taking out there aggression on co workers as a coping mechanism for the perpetual dead end they realize their lifes are.

Yup… Now I get to deal with a whole different ball of behaviors or environmental variables related to office work. I’m sure the veterans of the office work spaces will laugh at my naivety, but it is a QUANTUM LEAP for THIS ex-service industry lacky turned tech-savy developer and novice software engineer.

PowerBuilder (9.0 and 10.5) are definitely growing on me as a development environment and framework. I don’t understand why there seems to be a residual bitter taste (based on my web readings related to powerbuilder) regarding the use of this amazing client-server development platform. One word: datawindow.

Yes, as a noob, I am fully aware that my naivety is again causing more senior developers to cringe as they read… but frankly… get off a noob’s blog if you don’t want to cringe, ok?

Gone yet?

Good.

There seems to be this push to use J2EE reporting tools, or just develop in J2EE because it’s java, and well… it’s java. Oh one more thing… java.

Java is great and all, it’s damn sexy, and it’s elegant. However, I don’t see how it’s more practical to code, from the ground up, a complex and large scale system. Of course this is all relative to how simple I am finding doing bug fixes, code maintenance, and development of extension of exisiting functionality in Powerbuilder 9.0, of which I have only been exposed to since June 25th.

On the webside of things *snicker*, I am FINALLY on the verge of picking and getting setting up with an ISP. I am going to go with bluehost.com. So, when I have my personal site(s) relaunched off my private home server to a proper ISP, I will be letting everybody know. I also plan to play around with WordPress (and Joomla) on my ISP’s server, both which come installed.

This wordpress based fb-app is GOLDEN though, thanks developers!

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