I’m so used to that damn box popping up, I suspect it is a built-in feature. What’s worse than you crashing with a simple open command of a KB size data only file, is the freaking “checking for a solution”, just like a headless chicken running around! The cancel button! What is the use of cancelling an endless result-less operation when it’ll automatically start again!

“Well, something crashed, I think! It’s not new, it happened before, I searched some knowledge base out there or did I just order pizza, hmmm, OH you want to cancel, oppppps, I need to find something don’t I and it’s not pizza, well I better give it another try, you don’t have to approve it, here we go again, la la la  … trum trum trum … “

You know WHY you couldn’t find something out there, because it negates the very reason you were developed for!

“Hello, I couldn’t open a file. Really ??? Am I supposed to open xls files!!! Weird!!! I’m not sure how! Should I just have another go around the block … nothing out there, well you can’t say I haven’t tried, I even saved a copy for data recovery“

WHY oh WHY, there were no changes on the file, it didn’t even open! Why do I have 3 copies of the same file!!! It is useless to have 3 copies of the same file with different timestamps!

“ohhh, I forgot, Did you find this information useful “

^%$^ ^%$^& &*^%$ !!!!

So many features that “supposedly” make up excel, if I were Excel developers, I’d strip it down to the basic functions! I don’t think the people who gave birth to excel in Satan Villa, use it as they market it and level out its amazing features!

xlsx: useless wrapped in x’s

xls: xtracting life slowly!

I use MS office applications sometimes because of the format, and I don’t mean file extension, Office Org can open MS office, but the format of a template gets messed up. If you are writing according to a specific organisation format, they often pass you a template and it doesn’t work quite well with other applications.

Freaking thing got my ulcers kicking in!

BOUML is a free UML 2 tool box allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Idl, Php and Python.

I downloaded the Windows version, had problems with getting an uncorrupted executable, I had to choose a different mirror site, I chose Japan

After the successful installation, my AVG resident shield, detected the below as threats. The site has already warned about such thing if you have (AVG or Ikarus)

If you go to the Resident Shield Manage Exception, you can add that specific file.

I still haven’t used this tool and don’t really know my way around it. But I’m always a fan of free software that promise fast performance and doesn’t require much memory (link). I’m going to whip up some tests to see how well my UML diagrams are transferred to Java classes.