… are always considered slow and chunky in my opinion… it didn’t help with ICQ2Go was being sometimes clumsy and slow loading in my experience. At first I thought maybe ICQ2Go was just a badly coded Java applet… but I recalled that in my job with Panpac Media a couple of years back, they were using Oracle Financials and the interface is slow and clumsy as well…
That’s why I never considered Java for any of my serious software development… at least until today.
I was at a Caring Pharmacy outlet today buying some stuff. When I was queueing at the cashier’s counter, I noticed the Point of Sales (POS) system used at the counter. It was of a computer system attached to a barcode scanner and a cash register drawer (typical)… but the POS system was running on Java! Not just that it’s running on Java, it’s freaking fast as well!
I guess it’s about time I take Java serious for object-oriented programming (OOP) and software development… I’ll need to get myself some good reference books on this, to polish up the basics I learned while in college a couple of semesters back… any recommendations? Or better still, anyone got books to donate? 
March 27th, 2004 at 2:00 pm
hehe Java is good. hehe Maybe the Icq2go is slow due to its usage in the net. Maybe, when we use locally, it would be fast. hoho I like java man. It has nice concept and better to understand than Assembly that I find it really hard to understand. hhohoho ;p
March 27th, 2004 at 9:39 pm
Obviously right? Assembly is the primal tongue…
ICQ2Go is not slow because of the usage, you see, the applet when downloaded, contains the entire program, it connects to the ICQ server the way our normal ICQ client connects to it..
Speaking of ICQ, my ICQ Pro keeps crashing, finally gave it up and now on Trillian instead… brilliant!
March 29th, 2004 at 3:50 pm
hehhe Trilian is cool, but kinda hard for me to get use to it. hehehe