-
Giving the Byzantine a bad name...
I used to work with a dev who named every query "q" in his mostly linear code ( Read more... ) -
More obvious code unseen for 25 years...
Lets do another one of those...
At least this time I realized it myself, and didn't stumble across it in someone else's product.
You have a fixed series of things, that loops when it reaches its end (like days of the week, or months in a year, spokes on a wheel... whatever )...
How many times have I written some variant of this?
day=day+dayChange;
if( ( Read more... ) -
OMFBG!* (thats "B" for boolean)
I've been coding for... 25 years (eeep... theres some math I could have avoided thinking about ), for about 9 of those I've been coding professionally.
How have I never seen "toggleVar = !toggleVar;"
how many times have I written "if( toggleVar ) toggleVar=false; else toggleVar = true;" ?
I feel like an infant sometimes. -
Stack Overflow... Experts Exchange... all the power, none of the evil.
I am a regular reader of Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood who is one of the founders of Stack Overflow, so I knew about, and was waiting for it to open long before it did ( Read more... ) -
From a friend, fellow dev and ADD "sufferer"
I was discussing productivity this morning with a friend, one time co-worker, (and one of the handfull of people I have exposed to their own ADD and the glory of pharmaceutical management of that condition). He said this:
If it's an Adderall day, the day usually flies and I get a bit done, of course, you know how that goes.. once you're in that " ( Read more... ) -
Codefree Codeblog
...There has been a distinct lack of code here at the codeblog...
There has NOT been a lack of coding.
I just finished configuring a Joomla site...
I think I hate Joomla.
It is built in PHP, which I don't love, but respect in the way you respect cockroaches...
Its extrememly powerful... but it took probably 100 man hours to get the site up... that was ( Read more... ) -
More respect for evil...
...I could not have covered this better than Jeff, so I'll let him:
www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001196.html
Evil and Awesome aren't SUPPOSED to coexist.
-
Linux and Me - Round 9b : moblock
My feeling with moblock up until the other day.
I don't get linux devs sometimes... possibly ever.
I'm not keen on the linux "trust me, I'm doin shit" methodology, moblock is a nearly silent daemon that lives by that methodology.
I have to keep pulling up a terminal and doing a ps aux or tail -f of the log, blocking is ABOUT paranoia for crap's sake, ( Read more... ) -
Linux and Me - Round 9
My media PC, an AMD K7 1.8Ghz machine running a questionably licensed copy of XP (I said QUESTIONABLE! I'm not sure I didn't own it, I just don't remember exactly), recently had a catastrophic meltdown.
I'm not saying that figuratively... it was partially melted.
I replaced it with a surplus IBM NetVista... a meager P4 1Ghz machine... HARDLY capable ( Read more... ) -
Praise for ultimate evil.
Recently my personal PC got hit by Vundo. Again.
Yes, I know. My fault entirely, the most obnoxious part about the whole deal is how much crap I would give me if I had been someone else. Professionals don't get viruses. I fall into the "high risk usage" category, and have still managed to avoid them altogether, barring a couple of unexpected ( Read more... )