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sales guy vs web dude

For any of us that are in IT or Web services this video is one of the funniest because it’s so true.

Enjoy.

The fresh new UstreamTV

Apparently, the “fresh new ustream” isn’t all that fresh. It smells like a big pile of shit that any competent developer would be embarrassed to implement. I mean really, what were those people thinking?

About the only thing that was done correctly was cleaning up the front page. But the lack of testing and a resource for any documentation for the “new look” is abysmal. The release of this mess was not thought out AT ALL. Merely tossing it up on the web for all to scoff at seems to be the order of the day. Remember the Facebook remodel? I thought you did. But the devs at ustream didn’t.

The comments on the blog post are overwhelmingly against the “fresh new”. The forum posts are similar.

Since the shit was shoved down the throats of the Ustream users, there has not been a peep from anyone of consequence. I can only hope that they have taken the comments to heart and are working to reverse this trend of releasing untested and unwanted web crapplications to the public.

I’m not going into what’s broken because the list is too long.  Please sign the petition to get Ustream to back out of this silliness.

Get the message UstreamTV, you fucked up.

Note: The API is broken. LOLOLOLOL MORONS!!!!

ftp Clients

For the longest while, I have been using SmartFTP for my ftp needs. It recently went to a pay-me status. I was quite upset with that. But after having had to search for another ftp client, I can see why. There is not another client with the features of SmartFTP. It’s multiple connection windows and widows explorer type interface make it unique among the ftp clients.

I tried many of the free ftp clients, and I can say, why do most you bother trying to make one? Filezilla kicks all your butts. For one reason or another, most of the others just SUCK. Plain and simple. I will not get into names, but there are some that actually DO NOT work in a stock configuration. Having to restart a transaction because of a silly error is just unfathomable to me. Add on several errors, and it’s really bad. I tried one that would CONSTANTLY steal focus from my other work. Tweak UI handled that little problem as I didn’t see anyway in the client itself to disable that “feature”.

I almost paid the price to purchase SmartFTP, but since I found Filezilla. I think I will be alright until I have enough money to pay the SmartFTP extortion fee. And that’s all it really is. They could have a free version, with a lot less features, but they don’t. So I will stick with free for now.

What do you use?

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