Seems like an Appalachian version of DI, just missing a banjo duel :)
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Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
thrakazog wrote:
Oh, and VSS 6 Gah!
Yep, we were the same. Thankfully already started moving to SVN but that's gonna be painful as well...
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Mario Luis wrote:
I wonder if the old internal 1.1 sites are still runing in my previous company? No-one wanted to touch the stuff and only I worked on and it was oldish when I already got my hands on it. Left nearly 3 years ago already.
Going on past experience, chances are it's the flagship product these days :)
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Dave Parker wrote:
port it straight to .NET 2 without code changes?
I'm a-goin' the whole hog and porting to .NET 4. Well... going "half hog" insofar as there will be no code changes (yet), only target the newer runtime and new tooling.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Jyothikarthk wrote:
Look at it this way, there's lots of scope of work and making things look (and work) better!
This suite of apps is, officially, supposed to be decomissioned but it's still under active development :doh: I think I'm safe for the next 2 years at least.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
General moan. I joined a new team at work as tech lead and the app stack is written almost entirely in .NET 1.1 (with some good ol' VB6 and hacked .bat's for good measure). It's not the code itself that's bugging me - it's the IDE. I've never liked the 1.1 IDE. Maybe others here will differ but to me it's slow and fugly. Ick. I'll be porting it over .NET 4 from around mid July so there's hope. Just fired the 2003 IDE up, felt a bit ill and decided to run here for solace and procrastination. Haven't used it for the last 6 years and it irks me that I feel like taking the position was a step backwards (even tho' it's actually a really good opportunity for me). Anyone else still using .NET 1.1? Brothers in arms - I feel your pain!
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
I did. I posted this for the benefit of other authors who may have had their work ripped off.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Ego surfing :) I was talking with (she might say "boring") my wife yesterday on Jeff's post on Google search rankings[^] and thought of using my own article as an example. There's a few posts on their that are ripped straight off of CP with no credit back to the original author or links back to CP.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Seems the dude below is fond of stealing articles from CP and passing them off as his own. Any ideas? Should anyone care? http://crackcode.blogspot.com/
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
I got one of those at the weekend & so far I'm really happy with it. What's you experience been like?
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Did you have any of the betas running on that machine?
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
I litter my code with trinkets for the other members of the team and as little gems for the future. With over 500 assemblies and millions of lines of code, the chances of finding comments ranging from the mundane to the hilarious are pretty slim. Apart from the standard // Workaround for & // to do: there are: /* you're the real thing, yeah the real thing, even better than the real thing. :ds */ (under a particularly crafty bit of genius) // f*** direct debits, I wanna go home :ds (after a particularly long night wrestling with a settlement instruction file) // who's yer daddy? :ds (above call to an inherited method) I still comment my code adequately with "normal" comments. Just find this makes code more fun to read.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
When the trip comes give me a shout, I'll have a pint of the black stuff waiting for you :)
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Consider this:
Although I'm skipping a number of details it would be entirely possible for you to apply to a few positions, lining up interviews over a 2 - 3 week period, fly out, do the interviews and discuss work permits with interested potential employers. It would, of course, be the decent thing to let them know that you'd need a work permit up front. My philosophy is that opportunities are made, not found. Good luck. http://www.irishjobs.ie/
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Trek die kant toe. It's colder, the food is bad and the people not nearly as friendly as "they" would have you believe but on the plus side you can earn a boatload of cash and travel extensively for relatively little. If you work in finance/banking (and you're good) you can earn close to ZAR1M p/a. Not a bad old life, I can tell you.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
I don't know what you're on, but I want some.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
That's unique to SA, no-one else calls them that. Freaked my dad out when we first moved to SA in 1980, he got pulled over by a traffic cop who said (after determining that my father spoke no Afrikaans) "Ekskuus me, sihrr. Does you knows you jest went froo a rrrred rrrrrobot?" "I beg your pardon" said Dad, "A what?" "A rrred rrrobot". Stunned silence from my dad, who looked around looking for some form of mechanical marvel, a fantastic metal beast painted in glorious red livery with a car shaped hole in. "I... uh... what?" "A traffis laaight!" "Oh!" says Dad, "You mean a traffic light..." Say Brady - stuur bietjie biltong china. Ons kry fokol hier :)
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Thanks for the reply Chris. Nice to see that even tho' CP is ~6.7 million strong each suggestion is still considered.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
Disclaimer: This might have actually existed once upon a time & been removed because it didn't work well in practice. Seems like a good idea in my head, but the reality might actually be stupid. I really like the default CP message board layout & the way it sparks discussion but I sometimes struggle (mostly in the lounge) to see how a reply links back up to a previous reply a few posts up, particularly if one reply spawns a new discussion. It helps if the poster quotes from the reply he is replying to but when there's 5+ or so posts between it gets harder and is just the slightest bit more taxing on the brain than if there were a visual clue of how a reply related to another. The UI suggestion: Run a thin, almost treeview-esque line between the replies when the number of posts between two replies exceeds a certain number. E.g. The current layout:-
Message
Reply A
Reply A.1
Reply A1.1
Reply A1.1.1
Reply A1.1.2
Reply A1.1.3
Reply A1.1.4
Reply A1.1.1.1
Reply A1.2
Reply A1.2.1
Reply A1.2.1.1
Reply A2
In this case it's not immediately clear that Reply A1.2 is a reply to A1. At first glance one could mistake it as being a reply to A1.1. The suggestion:
Message
Reply A
Reply A.1
| Reply A1.1
| Reply A1.1.1
| Reply A1.1.2
| Reply A1.1.3
| Reply A1.1.4
| Reply A1.1.1.1
|--Reply A1.2
Reply A1.2.1
Reply A1.2.1.1
Reply A2
A thin line provides a visual clue that A1.2 is a reply to A1. Personally, I don't think that these visual clues should be visible all the time as that would really mess up the UI. They should appear & disappear depending on which reply has focus.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen
I don't want just ANY Boeing - I want this one. :)
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen