Comments for Andrew Munn http://www.andrewmunn.com A Software Engineering Student Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:32:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on ElectroMag by TBBT Lover http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/10/electromag/comment-page-1/#comment-4294 TBBT Lover Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:32:53 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=176#comment-4294 Hahaha, I love both TBBT and HIMYM, but seriously TBBT is the "best" for us geeks.. lol I'm a software engineer as well. Awesome blog btw andrew, +bookmark. Cheers, Dave Hahaha, I love both TBBT and HIMYM, but seriously TBBT is the “best” for us geeks.. lol I’m a software engineer as well.

Awesome blog btw andrew, +bookmark.

Cheers,
Dave

]]> Comment on JQuery and YUI by Karan http://www.andrewmunn.com/2010/02/jquery-and-yui/comment-page-1/#comment-3229 Karan Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:20:57 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=188#comment-3229 I suspected (and confirmed in the disclaimer) from your post that you were referring to YUI2. I had the displeasure of looking at it when i worked at Yahoo! It is by far the worst library API I've ever seen for any major project. Thankfully, I used YUI3 while in dev beta for most of my term there. Further, I was able to make API suggestions directly to the YUI3 team. If you look into it, YUI3 has taken a ton of inspiration from jQuery (you seem to refer to it as JQuery throughout your post). YUI2 in contrast seems like a bunch of static utility functions, rather than a cohesive framework. YUI3 widgets are much more robust to work with than in jQuery i'd say, but take that with a grain of salt as I haven't done extensive jQuery widget building. YUI3 still needs work as many things are still painful like iterative over a list of elements. Anyways, glad to hear about your progress at Amazon :D I suspected (and confirmed in the disclaimer) from your post that you were referring to YUI2. I had the displeasure of looking at it when i worked at Yahoo! It is by far the worst library API I’ve ever seen for any major project. Thankfully, I used YUI3 while in dev beta for most of my term there. Further, I was able to make API suggestions directly to the YUI3 team.

If you look into it, YUI3 has taken a ton of inspiration from jQuery (you seem to refer to it as JQuery throughout your post). YUI2 in contrast seems like a bunch of static utility functions, rather than a cohesive framework. YUI3 widgets are much more robust to work with than in jQuery i’d say, but take that with a grain of salt as I haven’t done extensive jQuery widget building. YUI3 still needs work as many things are still painful like iterative over a list of elements.

Anyways, glad to hear about your progress at Amazon :D

]]> Comment on Concurrency versus Distributed Systems by Fad Samuel http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/11/concurrency-versus-distributed-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-2452 Fad Samuel Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:28:50 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=182#comment-2452 Distributed systems also require the consideration of fault tolerance which is a non-issue on a single machine. A distributed system is expected to be functional even if one or more of the machines stop operating or behave erratically or even if one or more links between the machines drop. These are very, very hard problems to solve. Distributed systems also require the consideration of fault tolerance which is a non-issue on a single machine. A distributed system is expected to be functional even if one or more of the machines stop operating or behave erratically or even if one or more links between the machines drop. These are very, very hard problems to solve.

]]> Comment on Concurrency versus Distributed Systems by Jamie Wong http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/11/concurrency-versus-distributed-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-2179 Jamie Wong Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:37:10 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=182#comment-2179 You have at least one reader not listed there. I looked around for a bunch of other SE blogs once I got to Waterloo. You have a lot of things worth reading on here. Good job You have at least one reader not listed there. I looked around for a bunch of other SE blogs once I got to Waterloo. You have a lot of things worth reading on here.

Good job

]]> Comment on Amazon.com by tenzin http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/11/amazon-com/comment-page-1/#comment-2057 tenzin Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:12:27 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=180#comment-2057 woot nice nice woot nice nice

]]> Comment on Concurrency versus Distributed Systems by Jeff Bain http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/11/concurrency-versus-distributed-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-1976 Jeff Bain Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:20:45 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=182#comment-1976 See, this is why I like reading the blogs of my peers. Interesting things get mentioned. This is actually a pretty interesting topic, I really need to get on looking into it sometime. Everything seems to be getting massively distributed nowadays because the web 2.0 world requires so much more power. See, this is why I like reading the blogs of my peers. Interesting things get mentioned. This is actually a pretty interesting topic, I really need to get on looking into it sometime. Everything seems to be getting massively distributed nowadays because the web 2.0 world requires so much more power.

]]> Comment on ElectroMag by Jeff Bain http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/10/electromag/comment-page-1/#comment-1274 Jeff Bain Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:11:38 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=176#comment-1274 I absolutely agree on these points. Electromag has absolutely nothing to do with even the most low level Software Engineering. It's an extremely specialized course that shouldn't be made mandatory for many who are really more interested in high level CS concepts. Sometimes courses along this line make me wonder if I should have gone to CS. I absolutely agree on these points. Electromag has absolutely nothing to do with even the most low level Software Engineering. It’s an extremely specialized course that shouldn’t be made mandatory for many who are really more interested in high level CS concepts. Sometimes courses along this line make me wonder if I should have gone to CS.

]]> Comment on Twitter by RDM http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/08/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1067 RDM Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:52:07 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=163#comment-1067 Might be time to update the About page.. Might be time to update the About page..

]]> Comment on New Layout by Fravic http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/08/new-layout/comment-page-1/#comment-904 Fravic Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:36:09 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=161#comment-904 "I can probably just remove the jquery that does that" If by "jQuery", u mean "CSS". :O “I can probably just remove the jquery that does that”

If by “jQuery”, u mean “CSS”. :O

]]> Comment on New Layout by Jeff http://www.andrewmunn.com/2009/08/new-layout/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Jeff Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:33:46 +0000 http://www.andrewmunn.com/?p=161#comment-876 :P Nice. You clearly need to post more Sir Andrew. :P Nice. You clearly need to post more Sir Andrew.

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