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RE: Don't use WTF for anything else
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RE: Everyone loves Microsoft
@Jojosh_the_Pi said:
@asuffield said:
Yes, the MS Office grammar checker is a worthless piece of crap. Its sole purpose is to make semi-literate mouth-breathers think that they don't need to get their stuff proof-read. It is entirely useless at improving the grammar of a piece of text; the advice it gives is often bad and usually wrong. A triumph of marketing over sanity.
No! It would not say that the check of the grammar is totally useless. It opens certain types of errors affluent (for example, mistyping "his" instead of "him is"). But, yes, you can never accept your hidden advice.
This reply is satire, right?
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RE: Everyone loves Microsoft
@Jojosh_the_Pi said:
@asuffield said:
Yes, the MS Office grammar checker is a worthless piece of crap. Its sole purpose is to make semi-literate mouth-breathers think that they don't need to get their stuff proof-read. It is entirely useless at improving the grammar of a piece of text; the advice it gives is often bad and usually wrong. A triumph of marketing over sanity.
No! It would not say that the check of the grammar is totally useless. It opens certain types of errors affluent (for example, mistyping "his" instead of "him is"). But, yes, you can never accept your hidden advice.
This reply is satire, right?
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RE: The most headache-less path to Web Development?
@zachninme said:
I'm jumping right in, I didn't read every post, so hopefully the discussion is still here :P
I personally went with PHP over ASP because ASP means Windows. I'm a serious Linux user, and oddly enough, my server runs Linux. (Who'd thunk it?)
The thing with Web development, is you're looking at about 5 languages. 2 of them actual programming languages, the other 3 just rules and such you'll need to learn. They are:
- PHP (or ASP)
- JavaScript
And
- SQL
- HTML
- CSS
Coo, SQL not a language then? I spend at least half of my time debugging TSQL or PLSQL and it certainly is one.
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RE: The Clbuttic Mistake
I recall in the late 80s, early 90s era of t'internet, people from Scunthorpe had a very hard time on some systems which had discovered keyword matching.
I always used to think that the people who compiled swear lists had to be much dirtier than the people using one or two of them in ordinary conversation.
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RE: Advanced Debugging
To be fair, only the one on the print line is required, since it means 'no newline'. It's C64 BASIC v2 familiar to most people born in the 60s or 70s who didn't like rubber keyboards.
Thanks for pointing out my WTF, I'll change it immediately!
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RE: Advanced Debugging
Some languages have awful support for debugging, and this is doubly so when programming once-removed from the language of choice, such as when writing Javascript on VS when writing a dotNet webapp. There's no intellisense for a start, and no debug: capability worth using, I still find myself doing alert("if you see then then it worked 1") all over the place.
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RE: ASP:Login WTF
<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Chances are you have another button on your page which is the default button for the page.</FONT>
<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>You can change this programmatically:</FONT>
<FONT size=2>Page.Form.DefaultButton = YourSubmitButton.UniqueID</FONT>
<FONT size=2>Of course this will fsck up default 'enter' behaviour for anything else on your page which may need it :)</FONT>
<FONT size=2>HTH
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