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Archive for July, 2005

How many bad developers are there in the world?

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on July 29, 2005 | 6 Comments »

As I was reading today’s “Daily WTF” I could not help but wonder about how many really bad developers are out there in the market place. The following snippet was submitted to D-WTF after being found in some production code: public boolean checkFalse(Boolean bool) { if (bool.booleanValue() == Boolean.FALSE.booleanValue()) { return Boolean.FALSE.booleanValue(); } else { [...]

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ViewState Tracking in ASP.NET Controls

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on July 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Let’s say you have the following snippet of code below. The code dynamically instantiates a new ASP.NET control, changes the title property and then adds the control to the control collection of a placeholder on the page – a typical approach to dynamically creating controls.  When the control loads, it adds an item into the [...]

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Big Container Ship

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on July 11, 2005 | 3 Comments »

Gizmodo posted a note about the OOCL Shenzhen – a huge container ship that carries electronics hardware from Hong Kong.  The ship is only manned by 19 crew members because almost all control of the vessel is possible using a single Windows-based terminal. I was wondering what happens if Windows crashes? That’s a lot of [...]

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Panorama

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on July 10, 2005 | 1 Comment »

I just created this really cool 360 panorama of the “Family Room” in my house.  I shot various pictures using my Canon Powershot SD200 and a tripod.  I then imported the pictures into The Panorama Factory v3.4.  The location in this image was shot as a test to see how easy I could create 360 [...]

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CMM?

Posted in Business Advice, Everything, tagged on July 2, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

“Documenting the documentation process”, isn’t that CMM?

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Code Comments

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on July 2, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

I have lost count of the number of times that I have been asked to work on a piece of software written by another developer, only to find out that the code had no comments. What typically follows is hours spent wading through lines and lines of complex instruction to determine how the software was [...]

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