JOTD
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Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly.
Maybe it should be rewritten in Plain English. In this unique case it couldn't possibly be more fubared.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Just wait for 13.
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Just wait for 13.
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Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly.
You'd think that after 12 versions we programmers would be smart enough not to use that POS. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly.
You'd think that after 12 versions we programmers would be smart enough not to use that POS. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithIt turns out that even the wiser altenatives are not that wise at all.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly.
You'd think that after 12 versions we programmers would be smart enough not to use that POS. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithMarc Clifton wrote:
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. You'd think that after 12 versions we programmers would be smart enough not to use that POS.
Digital Masochism has infected us all.
Todd Smith
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Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*) -
Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*) -
Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*) -
Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)NSIS? At least you're in control and customising it shouldn't be a problem for a C++ guru like you. Use the installer as a bootstrapper for installing .NET and then use NSIS & C++/CLI or whatever it's called this month to create a fantastic experience for the user. Simple, come on even I managed to whip together some plugins (albeit in ANSI C) to install mods into GTA from NSIS. Then created an XSLT stylesheet to have a simple xml file define how to install it. Must resurrect those and convert them to the new SA formats, make my life of installing mods much easier :-D
I have no idea what I just said. But my intentions were sincere.
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Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)I have been all day long trying to get Biztalk 2004 setup for a project and it keeps dying on the single sign on service configuration over and over and over.... I guess I am having a tough time getting to the smiling part you achieved but I have a couple of hours left. :)
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Wow nishant you are so awesome your the best poster on the internet i fucking love the jokes you post .
Somebody's cranky and needs a nap...
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Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Wow. At least they accept and even embrace the fact that their product sucks so badly that it is necessary to create a little automatic restart agent to revive it after frequent crashes. :doh: Brilliant. Actually, doesn't Outlook do something like this, too?
Matt Gerrans
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly.
Maybe it should be rewritten in Plain English. In this unique case it couldn't possibly be more fubared.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
dan neely wrote:
it should be rewritten in Plain English
Must you summon the Grand Troll :->
"That's no moon, it's a space station." - Obi-wan Kenobi
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Just wait for 13.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Just wait for 13.
They could just skip 13 and go to 14. Just like how big buildings don't have a thirteenth floor...
"That's no moon, it's a space station." - Obi-wan Kenobi
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NSIS? At least you're in control and customising it shouldn't be a problem for a C++ guru like you. Use the installer as a bootstrapper for installing .NET and then use NSIS & C++/CLI or whatever it's called this month to create a fantastic experience for the user. Simple, come on even I managed to whip together some plugins (albeit in ANSI C) to install mods into GTA from NSIS. Then created an XSLT stylesheet to have a simple xml file define how to install it. Must resurrect those and convert them to the new SA formats, make my life of installing mods much easier :-D
I have no idea what I just said. But my intentions were sincere.
Ed.Poore wrote:
NSIS?
That one is good :)
"That's no moon, it's a space station." - Obi-wan Kenobi
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly.
You'd think that after 12 versions we programmers would be smart enough not to use that POS. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Somebody's cranky and needs a nap...
Somebody's cranky and needs a nap... a spanking with a two-by-four.
Software Zen:
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Inno Setup[^] rules.
So I've heard. Yet to try it out! :-D Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Today's joke : Installshield 12. [/end of joke] It builds a project "once" and only "once". After that, it crashes and then re-starts itself (which is nice if you think of it). After watching it crash and re-start a few dozen times, I somehow got used to it. Annoyance got replaced with a smile each time I watched it do the stupid routine. It's got a Report-error option which attempts to email an error log to an address - though if you don't have MAPI setup, it brings up the IE email-setup dialog (which was even more annoying). You'd think 12 versions would be good enough to get something as basic to its functionality as the build-process working correctly. :|
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Unfortunately, the last time InstallShield didn't suck was back when it still created 16-bit installs.
Software Zen:
delete this;