MSDN Mistake :)
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Philip Fitzsimons wrote: Blah Blah Blah This article describes a programmatic method LOL poor bugger. On that note has anyone got any hairy tales of leaving test data in an app which a client has seen? I used to work with a chap who left a very rude comment about the client (who was a prick, the client, not the chap) on a web page. It was meant to be filler text to see how the design handled overflow. Enough to say the client was not impressed and kicked up a big fuss. I cannot repeat what he wrote (or Chris will kick up a fuss at me hehe), but it was pretty damned bad (not something you want your mother seeing.)
Paul Watson
BlueGrassGroup.com
Cape Town, South AfricaMy first professional gig was in a shop that wrote software for oil tank farms (those huge tanks that trucks fill up at). This was just after the big deal over the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez. I had put something clever in the status bar to test with, and the boss came along and, in a somewhat animated fashion, told me that this wasn't cool, even in testing. After he left, another programmer leaned over and told me that my predecessor had entered a status bar message of "Raise the Valdez!" and forgot to take it out. For some reason, the big oil company clients weren't amused. Did I mention that this gentleman was my predecessor? Of course, he just got fired. Given the kind of language that real programmers use, had one of my test messages made it into the field I'm sure there would have been a 21 gun salute in my honor, with the only downside being the barrels having been first pointed at me... Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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Philip Fitzsimons wrote: Blah Blah Blah This article describes a programmatic method LOL poor bugger. On that note has anyone got any hairy tales of leaving test data in an app which a client has seen? I used to work with a chap who left a very rude comment about the client (who was a prick, the client, not the chap) on a web page. It was meant to be filler text to see how the design handled overflow. Enough to say the client was not impressed and kicked up a big fuss. I cannot repeat what he wrote (or Chris will kick up a fuss at me hehe), but it was pretty damned bad (not something you want your mother seeing.)
Paul Watson
BlueGrassGroup.com
Cape Town, South AfricaHmmm... I made the mistake of including the literal name of a function in an error handler once... I changed it quickly after we started getting suspicious phone calls asking what "OnUpdateHack()" was... BTW: your sig flashes every time i move my mouse cursor over it. Very nice otherwise.
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once again MSDN makes me smile, some lazy git has put rubbish up on the site: go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/howto/embedded.asp[^] see 4th item down.... "How-To: Find the IP Address of a CE Device Connected Through RAS to a Windows NT Server" Blah Blah Blah This article describes a programmatic method for finding the IP address of a Microsoft Windows CE device that is connected through Remote Access Service (RAS) to a Microsoft Windows NT Server in Windows CE versions 2.11 and 2.12. :-D:-D
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, a sore thumb you will have."
:laugh: The other thing you occasionally see in MSDN are links to the MS intranet that are not swapped when they publish the pages to the public servers. So instead of 'http://support.microsoft.com/...' you see 'http://testing01/kb/...' and so on. ___________ Klaus [vbbox.com]
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Paul Watson wrote: On that note has anyone got any hairy tales of leaving test data in an app which a client has seen? i was struggling with a bug in an app i was working on (one of my own). so, i wrote some logging data to a text file so that i could see what was going on. eventually, i fixed the bug and moved on. a few weeks later, i get an email from one of my customers who's wondering why my program is creating this file called "fucker.txt" on his C drive. i apologized and promised him the person responsible would be dealt with. i had a beer. -c
"I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units...Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country." --Colin Powell, not talking about his boss
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OMG if I leave some tracing in the (F)light (I)nformation (D)isplay (S)ystem program a whole airport would get the message. Normski. - the next bit of code is self modifying ... jmp 0xCODE
:) luckily for me, my apps don't do anything even close to critical. -c
"I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units...Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country." --Colin Powell, not talking about his boss
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My first professional gig was in a shop that wrote software for oil tank farms (those huge tanks that trucks fill up at). This was just after the big deal over the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez. I had put something clever in the status bar to test with, and the boss came along and, in a somewhat animated fashion, told me that this wasn't cool, even in testing. After he left, another programmer leaned over and told me that my predecessor had entered a status bar message of "Raise the Valdez!" and forgot to take it out. For some reason, the big oil company clients weren't amused. Did I mention that this gentleman was my predecessor? Of course, he just got fired. Given the kind of language that real programmers use, had one of my test messages made it into the field I'm sure there would have been a 21 gun salute in my honor, with the only downside being the barrels having been first pointed at me... Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
We had this one in our app in the instance that there wasn't an error messge already defined: "Kirk to Engineering: Shut 'er down Scotty - the system's suckin' mud..." I think only one customer ever saw that one, and he enjoyed the hell outa's reporting it to us. He was the only customer who ever called for tech support that had to make an effort to stop laughing before saying his first word... ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
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My first professional gig was in a shop that wrote software for oil tank farms (those huge tanks that trucks fill up at). This was just after the big deal over the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez. I had put something clever in the status bar to test with, and the boss came along and, in a somewhat animated fashion, told me that this wasn't cool, even in testing. After he left, another programmer leaned over and told me that my predecessor had entered a status bar message of "Raise the Valdez!" and forgot to take it out. For some reason, the big oil company clients weren't amused. Did I mention that this gentleman was my predecessor? Of course, he just got fired. Given the kind of language that real programmers use, had one of my test messages made it into the field I'm sure there would have been a 21 gun salute in my honor, with the only downside being the barrels having been first pointed at me... Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
Would be interesting to know what you have written to the status bar? Support Greenpeace? Regards Thomas Sonork id: 100.10453 Thömmi
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Would be interesting to know what you have written to the status bar? Support Greenpeace? Regards Thomas Sonork id: 100.10453 Thömmi
Disclaimer:
Because of heavy processing requirements, we are currently using some of your unused brain capacity for backup processing. Please ignore any hallucinations, voices or unusual dreams you may experience. Please avoid concentration-intensive tasks until further notice. Thank you.I ain't tellin' :suss: Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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OMG if I leave some tracing in the (F)light (I)nformation (D)isplay (S)ystem program a whole airport would get the message. Normski. - the next bit of code is self modifying ... jmp 0xCODE
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> a whole airport would get the message. So you're the one responsible for this? http://www.coppit.org/homepage/images/coxheathrow.jpg[^]
Heathrow use Windows 98 :wtf:?!?! I'm glad I've always flown from Manchester... -- Andrew.
