F#!k the iPhone

I don't own an iPhone, probably won't. I have nothing against the iPhone actually, I know next to nothing about it. I am just sick to death of the absolutely ridiculous press coverage that it has received both bad and good.

If you go anywhere near the tech parts of the interwebs you will be bombarded with story after story about the god damn iPhone. I get it to a point. It's a great idea in theory, taking the Apple style to the mobile phone. But seriously, why the need to act like scary middle aged groupie women at a Kiss concert when they were in their prime (for the record, I hate Kiss). It is embarrassing to watch go on.

There are some discussion worthy points. As usual, Daring Fireball has realistic, insightful and meaningful comments about the product and it's relevance as a new technology. If you want solid commentary I would suggest checking John's articles out.

I like Apple as a company because at times I can see that try to improve the world of computing for day to day people. Something that should be the goal of any professional in the IT industry, especially software. But, observing Apple groupies is sickening. Everyone caught up in the iPhone hype storm needs to step back and take a shot of perspective. The iPhone will not change your life. IT'S A FUCKING PHONE.

Apple are guilty in all this as well. But that is what marketing means. It's a sad fact of reality that in the current age you can't sell a product without marketing it. Not because you wouldn't sell it, but because there is a whole culture built up around marketing and peddling goods. But they are no different to ANY OTHER company in that respect. Everyone is guilty of the sin of marketing.

Glad I got that out of my system.

Update: Have a look at the new articles for O'Reillys MacDevCenter feed. Case and point.

Gynamo

For gldapwrap, I needed a way to package bits of functionality to be injected into classes. I decided to externalise this from gldapwrap and work on as a seperate project. Check it out.

Update: Got a mention on aboutGroovy. Cool.

Gldapwrap

I've started working on and released a first version of an Object Oriented LDAP interface for Groovy.

There is a page up on the Groovy site about it and the code is also available via svn.

This is my first real open source contribution. It does feel good to get something out there, but I am pretty sure a quadruple amputee could count the users of gldapwrap with his/her appendages. Hopefully as I add more features people will start using it.

Being my first ever public release, I am really interested to see what other programmers think of the code quality. There are some extremely talented people gathered around Groovy and Grails so hopefully my work can cross paths with theirs at some point and I can benefit from their wisdom.

Big thanks to everyone on the Groovy/Grails mailing lists who helped with and answered my annoying questions.