Beernutz and his creativity strike again | The Coffeehouse

dahat

Your friend and mine who once thought the name Lincrosoft something that not get himself into trouble with MS legal, had no problem doing a wholesale rip off of MySpace (including it's logo) and threatened to sue countless 9ers for slander and copyright infringement has struck again... his latest project... codiplex.com which is currently only parked:

Despite being announced on his sites 'plog' last week:

I can't place it... but that name sounds... familiar.

And this hot on the heals of his now claiming that "Canada sucks" and closing the doors forever at BeerCo Software:

I wonder if it was the name, his skills, or his wonderful PR that did him in? Oh no... Blame Canada!

Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

Please, lets not dig beer up from the grave. Despite how amusing this is, lets just forget him.

RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Chadk wrote:
Please, lets not dig beer up from the grave. Despite how amusing this is, lets just forget him.

Afaik corona is beer.. Correct me if I'm wrong. Smiley

littleguru
<3 Seattle

I hope for him that he gets a decent job.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

Poor chris, it sucks when your hopes and dreams fail. I wish him the best with the new endeavor.

Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker

Come on Microsoft! Go after the cybersquatter!

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

Hmm... I smell a lawsuit.

Two lawsuits.

Codeplex and Elite Smiley

Jason Cox wrote:
Come on Microsoft! Go after the cybersquatter!

+2

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

Lloyd_Humph wrote:
Hmm... I smell a lawsuit.

Two lawsuits.

Codeplex and Elite

Jason Cox wrote: Come on Microsoft! Go after the cybersquatter!
+2

Let's not forget the Canadian agencies. Wink

Xaero_Vincent
Sexy me

Reserve your copy today!

dahat

Chadk wrote:
Please, lets not dig beer up from the grave. Despite how amusing this is, lets just forget him.

We should never forget Beer... and the good old days of trolling around here where it was a minor problem from a smaller number of players than we do today.

DarthVista
...

The rise and fall of Chris' company has certainly been instructive.

dahat wrote:

Chadk wrote: Please, lets not dig beer up from the grave. Despite how amusing this is, lets just forget him.
We should never forget Beer... and the good old days of trolling around here where it was a minor problem from a smaller number of players than we do today.

Although I can't speak for Beer, I always saw the Coffeehouse as a sort of improv comedy stage of sorts. Unfortunately I just can't take some of things that occur in this industry too seriously.

It's too bad nobody really ever got that... [C]

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

I'm just scratching my head wondering what a codiplex is?Maybe Saturday Night Lives "clownpen1s.fart" sketch isn't too far off if we truly are running out of Urls Smiley

permufanatic

dice/monster+youtube+certification+employer_fees+employee_fees+locations across the US
What if an employer could see candidates and hear them before interviewing?
(no expensive fly ins for undesirables)
What if candidates in mid-recession could get a better chance at a job by paying fees to a testing center?
Codiplex, based in Orange county, CA, is a network of developers working to make cash out of an upcoming financial crunch.

evildictaitor
if( !succeed( try() ) ) { while(true) try(); }

permufanatic wrote:
Codiplex is a network of developers working to make cash out of an upcoming financial crunch.

Uhuh. You and all the other bit-part companies that can't see the wood for the trees. When the financial crunch happens, all the big players will internalize (or export to foreign countries) as much as possible. They won't be diversifying their testing branch to CA.

irascian
Irascible Ian

dahat wrote:

We should never forget Beer... and the good old days of trolling around here where it was a minor problem from a smaller number of players than we do today.

While I'd agree we should never forget Beer - he's a classic lesson in the dangers of taking virtual strangers at seeming face value - I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic in referring to the "good" old days.

Those of us who became subject to his constant "legal threat" emails (I made the mistake of saying I thought he was mentally ill in a thread Rory started trying to build bridges with the nutter, resulting in email threats which when ignored then went to Rory), his prying around amongst other 9ers for personal details of where you live etc don't see anything "good" in this sorry, and frankly quite dangerous, individual at all.

There can be a very thin line between being an obsessive "fan boy", and being a mentally ill fantasist, albeit a very clever one. In my view beer28 is on the wrong side of that line and it would be foolish to promote the guy and talk about "good old days" as if his ridiculous fantasies were in any way real. The guy has way too much time on his hands, and can become dangerous and malicious at the slightest provocation.

The guy needs help and pretending that his fantasies were in any way "the good old days" is foolish, to say the least.

Tom Servo
W-hat?

littleguru wrote:
I hope for him that he gets a decent job.

Lets hope it ain't a company whose product I use. If his type of "common sense" (more like laffo sense) influences said product, then it'll be doomed.

Actually, I hope he "disappears" from this universe in a car submerging incident.

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

I miss Beer, he was the first time I ever had a real police officer threaten to charge me for something....

evildictaitor
if( !succeed( try() ) ) { while(true) try(); }

Cybermagellan wrote:
I miss Beer, he was the first time I ever had a real police officer threaten to charge me for something....

Did he claim to be a real police officer, and I'm missing the irony from having not been there?

Police officers don't usually threaten to charge you with anything unless they catch you redhanded (e.g. DUI, loitering, resisting arrest etc), they just turn up to your house and "ask" you to go with them to the police station to "answer a couple of questions" or "help them with their enquiries".

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Tom Servo wrote:

littleguru wrote:I hope for him that he gets a decent job.

Lets hope it ain't a company whose product I use. If his type of "common sense" (more like laffo sense) influences said product, then it'll be doomed.

I dunno, I'd rather use software written by Beer than SpectateSwamp, at least it would work.

evildictaitor
if( !succeed( try() ) ) { while(true) try(); }

W3bbo wrote:

I dunno, I'd rather use software written by Beer than SpectateSwamp, at least it would work.

Yeah. Pity his application was made obsolete by String.IndexOf.

SpectateSwamp
Nobody shares knowledge better than this

evildictaitor wrote:

W3bbo wrote:
I dunno, I'd rather use software written by Beer than SpectateSwamp, at least it would work.

Yeah. Pity his application was made obsolete by String.IndexOf.

You'll be OBSOLETE to the Masses when they get this Desktop Search. They'll know everything they need to know about computing.

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

GoddersUK wrote:
You know the best desktop search out there?

The "New Folder" button.

Yep, putting you files in descriptively named folders really helps.

/troll feeding.

Absolutely, logical folders are the best search... Never mind, troll feeding Tongue Out

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

You know the best desktop search out there?

The "New Folder" button.

Yep, putting you files in descriptively named folders really helps.

/troll feeding.

EDIT: besides MS have already produced the worlds best search UI:

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

GoddersUK wrote:You know the best desktop search out there?

The "New Folder" button.

Yep, putting you files in descriptively named folders really helps.

/troll feeding.

Absolutely, logical folders are the best search... Never mind, troll feeding

Organised files are nice, but they're not a perfect solution, just a means-to-an-ends.

Take my MP3 collection, when I want a speciifc song I want it played then and now, rather than spending a good few mouse clicks trawling through my extensive collection to find it.

My MP3s are sorted by \My Music\%artistName%\%dateOfPublicaton%-%albumName%\%trackNumber% - %trackName%

And it's often hard to remebmer which specific album a song was on, or even what its name was.

However desktop search isn't a perfect solution either, since whilst searching for the file using arbitrary terms works (since it helpfully indexes the ID3 tags), when I tell it to open it I then have to wait a good 3-4 seconds for WMP to open, then another 2 seconds for it to load the file (WMP is bloated, m'key?) and then start playing it. Hardly the seamless user experience I'm after.

Hence why I love Winamp and its "Jump to File" command. Just load your entire library into your playlist (which you should be doing anyway), and at any time want to play a song? Press a key-combination you assigned to Winamp to give it focus (Mine's AltGr+Ins) , press "J" to open the Jump to File Find-as-you-type window, enter some criteria, use the arrow keys to select the track, and then either Enter to play the track immediately or Shift+Enter to queue it up (Winamp has queues-within-playlists, which is cool).

All done in under a second and a half (I've timed it) with zero latency or delay with swtching to Winamp, opening the JtF window, and playing the thing.

WMP, despite its bloat, doesn't even do that.

But it's also a thing with Windows Desktop Search too, the main window takes longer than it should to load up, and I wince at having to open the WDS sidebar since that, too, takes too long to load.

If it isn't a "major" program, it should open in a snap, literally. Why doens't WDS or WMP?

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

W3bbo wrote:
Hence why I love Winamp and its "Jump to File" command. Just load your entire library into your playlist (which you should be doing anyway), and at any time want to play a song? Press a key-combination you assigned to Winamp to give it focus (Mine's AltGr+Ins) , press "J" to open the Jump to File Find-as-you-type window, enter some criteria, use the arrow keys to select the track, and then either Enter to play the track immediately or Shift+Enter to queue it up (Winamp has queues-within-playlists, which is cool).

All done in under a second and a half (I've timed it) with zero latency or delay with swtching to Winamp, opening the JtF window, and playing the thing.

WMP, despite its bloat, doesn't even do that.

Wait, what? If I open WMP, it starts with the Media library. If I want to play a song, I press Ctrl+E, type some search criteria, use the arrow keys to select the track, and press Enter to play it immediately, or Shift-Enter to add it to the playlist. How is that different?