Too much

Thought I'd play around with Spring and Middlegen. Ended up installing the Middlegen Eclipse plugin which refused to talk to MySQL and made HSQL crash and burn. Ended up throwing out MySQL and HSQL (since I don't like 'em anyway) to install PostgreSQL (which I do like). Since I'm quite a rookie on OS X I decided to find a tutorial covering PostgreSQL on OS X just in case there's some little quirk that's needed. Found an excellent one at Apple. It starts by installing readline using Fink. I like readline. I like the concept of Fink but I was to lazy (or was it eager) when I received my Mac to install it then. Ended up installing Fink, to install readline, to install PostgreSQL to be able to play around with a decent RDBMS while playing around with Middlegen and Spring.

Not that I think this is a pure Java syndrome, DotNet is probably going to get its share of the to-use-this-cool-tool-you-need-these-four-hundred-and-fifty-other-nifty-little-packages mayhem.


By the way, I'm also considering throwing out my keyboard since I've now typed this entry three times just to hit cmd+right arrow which causes Firefox to go back, loosing the entire text. Rich (and fat) clients have autosave. Jroller is web, it doesn't. Maybe I'll just throw out the Internet as well and roll my own universe where everythings works the way it's supposed to. Damn it.