Who is colored?

I got this from a colleagues who sent us copies of this email...
It's interesting to think that it does raise a thought or two on the subject of race...

It's said that this was written by an African kid and was nominated by the UN as the best poem of 2006

WHO IS COLORED?

When I born, I black
When I grow up, I black
When I go in Sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black

And you white fellow
When you born, you pink
When you grow up, you white
When you go in sun, you red
When you cold, you blue
When you scared, you yellow
When you sick, you green
And when you die, you grey

And you calling me colored??

Sweeper works...

It's a nightmare maintaining a legacy application... nightmare is perhaps an exaggeration but that is how i'm feeling right now...
one that was built without proper development framework...
no coding conventions...
no documentation of any sort...
most of the knowledge base is passed on from developer to developer...

to make things more challenging... the technology used to build the solution was from almost 10 years ago
which suffice to say, the solution it was supposed to provide has been outgrown by it's problem domain so-to-speak...

the challenge is how to make the available resources adapt to newer technology more capable of providing solutions it should give.
the challenge is how to seamlessly lay-out a framework based on the current technologies w/o ever breaking the legacy solutions.
the challenge is how to migrate legacy solutions to the more than capable development technologies....

.... the challenge ... a challenge...

It has been brooding in me to attempt to break the norm & lay out something new....
There isn't much to lose anyhow... i could try to create a prototype, to prove the concept.... then let the stakeholders decide....

challenging as it may be, what with the limited tools i have at hand...
challenging as it may be... a challenge indeed....


I am not exactly a brilliant developer... not even that good...
but over the years, whenever you see an system where you are able to see the design from the inside, meaning being able to read thru the codes,
trace the table structures... be able to see the overall architecture... I believe you'd know a good design from a shabby one...
I may not code the most optimized codes of them all but... (sigh) what can I say... this one I'm maintaining has a lot of room for fixing...
the design should be able to use at least some OOP based concepts, but they seem to be partially implemented....
the database, all the more...

guess all of these, comes w/ the job...
sweeper works...

[ o n e ! r o ] ©™ @ blogger.com alpha 1.0

Earlier I posted a blog that this would be an alternate blog site for the [ o n e ! r o ] ©™...
we'll here it is... it's finally having a face...

But as for the blogs themselves, there isn't much yet... however, I have provided links to the posts from the spaces.live site.
I'd mostly be posting future blogs on this site too...

anyhow... here's the alpha version of the o n e ! r o ] ©™ at blogger.com

Personal Finances Lite 2.4

Ever thought of being able to track down expenses, savings & earnings sans a full accounting system?
I have been searching a tool to be able to provide w/ such... I have even thought, why not just create my own... being a developer and so...

Anyhow, just as when I was about to just get on, with the heck building my own from the ground up... I stumbled by chance on one simple
solution that gave me exactly what I have been looking for... a simple stripped-down solution for tracking down expenses, savings & earnings...

...Personal Finances Lite 2.4 from Alzex Software.
www.financessoftware.com

This little application even comes w/ a U3 compatible versions, which made even handier... since it can run on my U3 enable flash drive...
this means I get to carry this w/ me all the time, darned portable.. hehehe

Now, I should be able to track down my finances easily, without ever needing to have a full accounting system... that is I have anything to keep track on...