A common thing about the open source projects

Someone writes something, convinces everyone (who are not really listening) that this is fabulous stuff, then turns around and walks away to a real job (why not? with 'enhanced resume' now...)

Here's the proof: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2516 - a bug in Android TabHost that remains unfixed since 2009, for over 4 years.

In the best traditions of open source projects the bugged code is now 'deprecated'. Strictly, not yet. But Google does not recommend using TabHost anymore. Now it's clear why. Instead of fixing, they 'deprecate' which means no fixes and no new development going in.

GFYS, users of the existing applications with TabHos layouts. You are on your own.

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Why we all should anticipate buggier and worse quality software going forward

The developers can write quality code if they have an opportunity to use a debugger to fix the issues with it. This is called de-bugging for a reason. Human brain has limited ability to analyze computer code. Even the best developers introduce bugs unintentionally and even the best of the best need debugger to visualize the call stack, variable values and follow execution flow.

The trend of the day in software development is to use XML to define program structures - be it composition and layout of GUI or representation of database tables. Everyone is happy - XML is plain text, it can be generated automatically and it is self-describing. They are forgetting of only one important thing: XML cannot be debugged. more...

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Upgrading to Fedora 19

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