“I have a confession to make…”

- Hey, what are guys up to?
- We are just enjoying some porn
- Hope you’re not doing Java and open source
- No!

The hilarious trailer of JAVATAR makes a brilliant psychological observation of human beings approaching different or new technologies. The technological emotions syndrome as pictured here is funny and scary at the same time. Had there been no emotions expressed about IT, we wouldn’t observe all the holy battles trolled out loudly out there.

- Dad…I have a confession to make
- I use…

Alternative link to the trailer.

Linux vs Windows. FOSS vs Proprietary. C++ vs Java. OSGeo vs ESRI. Python vs PHP. <your favourite technology> vs <your hated technology>

The funny part is the situation comedy being pictured. The worrying thing is, had the comedy not been pictured, we wouldn’t see it’s a comedy. A kind of drama, actually.

Video lecture about CMake

Bill Hoffman from Kitware gives presentation about CMake and a pack of related tools to the happiest easygoing working nation on the Earth:

It’s worth to watch if interested in CMake.

Iterators Must Go!

I’ve already announced the brilliant and provocative presentation given by Andrei Alexandrescu titled Iterators Must Go!.

Here is video of Andrei’s keynote digged to boostcon.blip.tv:

It may seem this is a C++ oriented presentation, but in fact it’s more related to software design, design patterns and idioms, interface oriented design, programming by contract and…shortly, it’s really worthwhile to watch, during lunchtime of course ;-), and enjoy!