Showing posts with label software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label software. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Why Grails sucks

Or,
Why Grails is the worst web application framework I have ever used in my life, and I've used some pretty bad ones

Here's one reason:
Compilation error: Compilation Failed
Application context shutting down...
Application context shutdown.
Soooo sorry, but that's nothing but 100% grade-A pure American male cow manure.

Monday, January 04, 2010

Snap software judgment of the day

As far as remote desktop connection software for Mac OS X goes, CoRD is the best.

CoRD > TSclientX
TSclientX > RDC

Why?

CoRD - http://cord.sourceforge.net/
- Download size: 1.12 MB
- Install size: 3 MB
- Open Source? Yes
- Ease of use: Incredibly easy
- Installation: Drag CoRD.app to Applications folder

TSclientX - http://desktopecho.com/tsclientx/
Pros: Not Microsoft, Open Source
Cons: 40 Megabyte download

Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 -
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx
Pros: ?
Cons: By Microsoft (not Open Source), comes as an mpkg (no uninstaller), 10 Megabyte download