This is not a site for recruiting freelancers or advertising your services for work - we just focus on things that other people in IT have done wrong, and endeavour to learn from their mistakes - and have a good laugh while doing it...
Posts made by mjmilan1
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RE: About website
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RE: How Do I Security
Every tried leaving Paypal? Apparently, you just can't.
I have an current issue with them where they've demanded all sorts of ID from me (after eight years of dealing happily with me), which has eventually led to my inviting them to get stuffed. But apparently no, my account simply cannot be closed down.
I ended up sending them a data protection notice that they no longer had any right to process my personal data, which I thought would do the job. Nope! They just, in typical PayPal fashion, ignored me and pretend I don't exist...
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The Side Bar itself.
Maybe 10% of my trips to the front page of the site result in the side bar only having a single entry called "File Not Found"... This seems to be work for so long, then fall over, then work, then fall over...
It's a bit embarrassing on a site that is dedicated to exposing other people's mistakes lol
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RE: Angular 2 first impression
At work we have taken the "courageous" decision that Angular 2 is going to be used for our front end strategy from here on in, and we've done some basic, largely self led training...
It seems nice, I love the components based approach, but I really don't love javascript. There are no words to adequately convey how much I don't love javascript. Sadly of course the tide is against me, and I suppose we have typescript as a semi-compromise, but yuck... I also do some work on an open source project which is purely ASP.Net MVC - and I have to say I think that is where my heart truly lies.
One thing Angular 2 has got which interested me greatly was the idea of going on to use it with Cordova to generate applications for mobile platforms. Not such an appealing prospect though now that we learn Microsoft are going to be giving Xamarin away for free...
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RE: CSVs ought to be in ASCII
Or use something like LibreOffice perhaps?
I know, it ain't excel, but it's capable of handling the import and to be honest it's replaced Office on my personal machine...
If you really like pain, try OpenXML SDK...
Or hope someone else's CSV parsing library has better luck...
To be honest, you could write something that would work by using the OpenXML SDK to work with the XML elements in the xlsx - but there's a bloody good argument that says that's MICROSOFT'S job...
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RE: Your Upwork
For a laugh sometimes I review the offerings over on Freelancer.com - people who want enterprise level applications built using what I would normally consider the coffee budget on a proper project...
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The sidebar itself...
Am I the only person who finds that the side bar on the front page only works sporadically?
It's not working again - and I've just tested with Firefox and Chrome...
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RE: For Most of Each
What amazes me is that your test team didn't encounter the issue pre-release...
Maybe you need to revisit their test cases...
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RE: Toronto lawyers don't know anything about the Internet
I don't know what troubles me more - this, or the fact that some people might stake all they have the legal advice of such people whom, following a brief and open-minded assessment of the facts as they are, might not know a great deal about the internet. Or the law. Or both.
(Somewhat edited version of my first draft - we are dealing with lawyers after all...)
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RE: Leap Years&Co.
I actually looked into this years ago when I thought writing a date library was a good idea (as opposed to using one off the shelf...). What can I say - I was younger and stupider.
Anyway, from memory, the rules are:
We have a leap year if the year is divisible by 4.
Unless it's also divisible by 100, in which case it's not a leap year.
Unless it's also divisible by 400, in which case it IS a leap year.See - you learn something every day...
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RE: Purge it with fire!
Good. I wouldn't expect you to yell...
I would expect you to reach into your Disaster Recovery plan, and like, recover... Because you WERE doing your backups right? Data + Config?
The problem with things like backups is that they represent dull drudgery to most dev / operations folks. They're a lot more appealing once your back is to the wall though...
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RE: Is there a name for this pattern?
Generally speaking, I would agree that this is foolishness - but it is possible that the developer had in mind that at some later date she/he might have to add some additional functionality to these lists, but wasn't smart enough to consider inventing something like MySuperList<T>...
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RE: Junior developer woes
I'm afraid you are the real wtf...
When a company takes on a junior, and especially a junior just out of education, it also takes on some moral obligation towards that developer. As others have commented, there is a wide gulf between programming for a university assignment and programming in the real world.
Someone should have taken responsibility for taking the junior under their wing, and keeping an eye on what he was doing. Someone should have been guiding him, encouraging him, and when he wondered off into WTF territory, giving him a gentle kick back on to the straight and narrow.
At my place, all work has to be peer reviewed - usually within 24 hours of it being committed, and before it is submitted for the consideration of the test team. I was skeptical at first, but in a decent team this is an excellent practice - it allows for knowledge sharing, provides a safety net, and decreases the overall amount of work placed before the test team.
What's not to like?
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RE: Useful constants
Yes, the use of constants here is ridiculous.
For another laugh, look at the way he's done it - shouldn't those constants be declared as Shared (static for our C# friends)???
Martin.
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RE: Simple question: Should I be bothered by...
@miner49er said:
I thought the point of this forum/site was to debate, amongst other things, good/bad coding-practise?
Indeed.Type inferernce has it's place, but don't use it just to make your code look Sexy/LinQy. If you mean a boolean, use a boolean. It makes you're code easier to read, and with more complicated datatypes also means that you get intellisense made available to you...
Martin.
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RE: Election WTF
Nope - the real WTF is the notion that someone's kid can be brought in to handle the results of an election... Someone with whom the local authority has no contract, no idea of their qualifications, no idea if they are a registered member of any of the parties being voted for, just no idea at all really...
I'd call you a liar, but no - somehow the idea that town hall could conspire to such an accomplished level of WTFery isn't beyond my powers of belief...
Muppetman.