Lounge is quiet today

WillemM

I'm going away for long weekend with my parents, brother and sister. Haven't seen them in a while, so this should be fun. I really don't want to talk about coding right now. It simply sucks at the moment.

WM. My blog

Nagy Vilmos

eyeseetee wrote:

Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend?

We've got a frienf of Mrs Wife visiting.

eyeseetee wrote:

I saw Bond again last night - 3/5.

I saw a Danger Mouse DVD with the kids last night 6.37/5

eyeseetee wrote:

Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?

C:\win.exe

eyeseetee wrote:

Trying to get conversation started

It's Friday, waut until after lunch and mabe people will be a bit more /relaxed/.

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

Dalek Dave

Steve Echols wrote:

Want to see the new Bond (thought the first one rocked!)

Yeah, I liked Dr No too.

------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

Dalek Dave

williamnw wrote:

eyeseetee wrote: I saw Bond again last night - 3/5. I saw a Danger Mouse DVD with the kids last night 6.37/5

Good Grief!

------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

Baconbutty

Singing DM theme tune to myself now - thanks a bunch! At the moment reading the .NET book zero as mentioned by Roger earlier.

My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

Steve Echols

:laugh: Meant the first one with the new guy. :-O Don't think I've seen Dr. No, was that Connery?

- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!

eyeseetee

I think Craig is good, Brosnan was OK but he just took the typical cheesy bond role too far and made it dull and uninteresting. I guess they were trying to reach out for a different audience with Craig.

Dalek Dave

Certainly was, it is the one where Ursula Andress rises from the water whilst miming to "Oh My Island In The Sun" as sung by Diana Copeland. (She went on to play Sid James' wife in 'Bless this House')

------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

eyeseetee

What did you think of the modern updated scene where Halle Berry rises out the water?

Dalek Dave

I have no objection to an attractive woman in a swimsuit rising from anything!

------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

Simon P Stevens

eyeseetee wrote:

Anyone doing anything exciting at the weekend?

Got a delivery of a table coming. It's a replacement for one they delivered last week that turned out to have screws too big to fit in the holes. Rather than just supplying new screws, they are sending a whole new table. Crazy. What a waste of time/effort/petrol/etc. Planning on booking next years hols too. Other than that it's a nice quiet weekend.

eyeseetee wrote:

I saw Bond again last night - 3/5.

Might go see that.

eyeseetee wrote:

Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?

Yesterday I cam across this line:

float aVar = (float)(double)something.Value;

[Names changed to protect identity] Thought it was stupid, then realised it was actually needed because Value was declared as an Object type, but was actually a double. and aVar had to be a float because of what it was being used for. I blame stupid excel interop. Why is everything just returned as objects rather than actually typed properly. In the end I refactored it all into a bunch of excel classes that abstracted the messy interop stuff away and left a nice pretty interface that returned properly typed objects. (And I replaced all the direct references with reflection and late binding because we need to support excel 2007 soon)

Simon

Simon P Stevens

DM rocks. Penfold was brilliant. And what a theme tune: He's the greatest he's fantastic he's the best.

Simon

Nagy Vilmos

Cripes DD!

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

hairy_hats

Ursula Andress was in "Bless this House"? :omg: "Doctor, no!" and "Coldfinger" are among proctologists' favourite films.

Dalek Dave

Diana Copeland! (It wasn't clear, apologies) You only look twice. The man with the golden bum. Moonraker? For your eyes only? There seems to be a link here!

------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

Rich Leyshon

eyeseetee wrote:

Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?

All other answers to this question are rendered obsolete as I may start on a little experimental app later today! Does VB still have GOTO? Rich

hairy_hats

Dalek Dave wrote:

The man with the golden bum.

King Midas after visiting the loo.

Gary Wheeler

eyeseetee wrote:

Whats the worst bit of coding you have ever seen?

#define CASEDEF1 case 5: value = 3; break; \
case 6: value = 10; break; \
// goes on line this for 10 lines or so
#define CASEDEF2 case 50: DoSomething(...); break; \
case 63: DoSomethingElse(...); break; \
// more of the same
//...
switch (variable)
{
case 1: DoThis(variable); break;
case 2: DoThat(variable); break;
CASEDEF1
CASEDEF2
//...
CASEDEFn
}

The programmer who wrote this abortion was eventually terminated with extreme prejudice. Ironically, he showed up back here a couple of months ago for a job interview. Needless to say, my long memory for his atrocities held us in good stead, and he did not find gainful employment at our fine establishment.

Software Zen: delete this;

Anna Jayne Metcalfe

Beth and I finally got home from Berlin yesterday afternoon, so we're still catching up on everything (not least writing up my notes from the conference[^]). I'm halfway through now, as a result of a mad binge of editing last night. :) As they say "normal service will be resumed as soon as possible". :rolleyes:

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Stuart Jeffery

Steve Echols wrote:

Want to see the new Bond (thought the first one rocked!)

So did you watch the other 20-odd or just the first?