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    #302
    Mmmm_Lemony
    Registered Users Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Mmmm_Lemony


    http://heathersanimations.com/

    Save heathers animations! Especially Africa people!


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    #303
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    that looks like my myspace!


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    #304
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Mmmm_Lemony wrote: »
    http://heathersanimations.com/

    Save heathers animations! Especially Africa people!

    Jesus. I hope that's just some left over relic from the good old days where the hosting hasn't run out.


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    #305
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    It's nasty, but it's hardly a coding horror is it?

    A coding horror to me is code that has been written by someone who has trained and is paid to be a developer. not heather that doesn't have a design bone and probably doesn't need one :D


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    #306
    Mort5000
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭Mort5000


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Jesus. I hope that's just some left over relic from the good old days where the hosting hasn't run out.

    "Site last updated: March 2013 "
    Heh. heh.

    I have to concede that it is a very impressive collection.
    The 'stick people' are particularly dark and amusing!


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    #307
    KonFusion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 2,588 Mod ✭✭✭✭KonFusion


    Creamy Goodness wrote: »
    A coding horror to me is code that has been written by someone who has trained and is paid to be a developer. not heather that doesn't have a design bone and probably doesn't need one :D

    Does this count? http://www.clarevirtually.ie/ :pac:

    I also found a really nice theme for Bootstrap http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/


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    #308
    KonFusion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 2,588 Mod ✭✭✭✭KonFusion


    Get paid per line? - http://www.fess.me/


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    #309
    Korvanica
    Registered Users Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica 


    <td width="50%"><asp:RadioButton ID="radEmployee" runat="server" Text="Name or Badge Number" GroupName="Search" onclick="[B]SetSearchType[/B](1)" Checked="true" TextAlign="Left"/></td>
<td width="50%"><asp:RadioButton ID="radGroup" runat="server" Text="Group" GroupName="Search" onclick="[B]SetSearchType[/B](2)"/></td>

    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
   
       function SetSearchType(type) {
           $("[id$='SearchTypeValue']").val(type); 
       };
    </script>

    if (((SearchTypeValue.Value.Length) == 0)) { SearchTypeValue.Value = "1"; }

    good lord....


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    #310
    returnNull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭returnNull


    Mmmm_Lemony wrote: »
    http://heathersanimations.com/

    Save heathers animations! Especially Africa people!
    my eyes are bleeding:pac:


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    #311
    laugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    http://adam-lynch.github.io/ked/


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    #312
    oneweb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭oneweb


    Yukky html

    http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/Events/Pages/LordMayor%E2%80%99sDublinStreetAthletics.aspx

    It is what it's.



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    #313
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://www.codingconfessional.com/


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    #314
    Mmmm_Lemony
    Registered Users Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Mmmm_Lemony


    www.ifi.ie

    Not so much the look, more the user experience.

    I have a membership card, and I have an IFI login, but never the twain shall meet!!!


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    #315
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    (from x in db.table select x).ToList().Skip(skip).Take(take);

    "I think there's something wrong with Azure, it's too slow"
    :rolleyes:


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    #316
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    I've just come across code in a solution from a major international IT company. One particular method has about 30 variables, each named V1, V2, V3...V28, V29, V30.

    Further investigation reveals that most methods in this major enterprise solution are written like this.

    Sweet Jesus! :mad:


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    #317
    zynaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭zynaps


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    I've just come across code in a solution from a major international IT company. One particular method has about 30 variables, each named V1, V2, V3...V28, V29, V30.

    Further investigation reveals that most methods in this major enterprise solution are written like this.
    Is a lot of their code like that? Hopefully not - it'd suggest either that they've produced it by disassembling something else they didn't have the source for, or that they're running an obfuscator over their code before it gets to you.

    If so, it's a really bad sign that they could hold you to ransom in future (because no other contractor will be able to work with the obfuscated code without a gigantic headache).
    ...and if not, it's a really bad sign that they're dangerously incompetent :pac:


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    #318
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    zynaps wrote: »
    Is a lot of their code like that? Hopefully not - it'd suggest either that they've produced it by disassembling something else they didn't have the source for, or that they're running an obfuscator over their code before it gets to you.

    If so, it's a really bad sign that they could hold you to ransom in future (because no other contractor will be able to work with the obfuscated code without a gigantic headache).
    ...and if not, it's a really bad sign that they're dangerously incompetent :pac:

    I'm leaning towards the dangerously incompetent unfortunately.
    These guys have no idea of basic design principles. They are our vendors for our main system. It's as important to us as an EPOS is for a supermarket. Every change request we give them is handed completely independently of the big picture - it's like they are developing a brand new system each time.

    For a simple example, let's say we have Batch Job 1 that extracts data A, B and C to CSV format.

    We request two more batch jobs:
    Batch Job 2: extract A, B, C to XML format
    Batch Job 3: extract A, B, C, D to CSV format

    Each of those three jobs will be developed completely independently of each other; often using entirely different approaches to achieving very similar goals.

    If we have an existing job that deals with 15 different objects and 5 different batch interfaces and we want another job developed that uses the EXACT same objects and interfaces, they will literally start developing that second job from scratch. Absolutely no reuse whatsoever.

    Also, the relationship between the front end and the back end is a joke best described by that phrase "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". Let's say the front end displays a value labeled "Cost" for Item A and a data extract of Item A contains the Cost value. This same value will not be sourced from the same location for the front end and extract. In fact, the extracted value might even be calculated in run time rather than retrieving it from a db, but the front end WOULD get it from a db. To make matters worse, there is no guarantee that the value on the extract and front end will match. There is also no guarantee that a field called Cost in the Item table is actually the source of the front end's Cost for Items.

    Data might be correctly stored in the db, but when the user requests that data, instead of just retrieving it from the db, the system will do an ad hoc calculation. I'm talking about fairly complex algorithms here. However, even though the db is right, the ad hoc calculation might be defective. This is another reason why the db might not match what is outputted to the user.

    This is a simplistic but representative sample of the nightmares we face every day with this company. It is a massive company, well known in the industry (not to the public though). Sadly, due to politics my own company, we are unlikely to move away from them anytime soon.


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    #319
    bpmurray
    Registered Users Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    For those of you who are enamoured of Heather's Animations, be informed that Heather is an amateur at this stuff: http://www.lingscars.com/


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    #320
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    bpmurray wrote: »
    For those of you who are enamoured of Heather's Animations, be informed that Heather is an amateur at this stuff: http://www.lingscars.com/

    Good lord, that site is a bad advertisement for drug abuse! Lol at the chicken walking across the twitter feed!


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    #321
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    Why did the chicken walk across the road twitter feed


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    #322
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304


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    #323
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304

    Brilliant.


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    #324
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 7,859 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    Nothing terrible, but I just came across a comment in the com.sun.mail.smtp package.
    } catch (AddressException aex) {
    // oh well...
    }


    I always laugh at those sort of comments!


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    #325
    zynaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭zynaps


    Mmm, empty catch block madness... had a couple of "no error messages or stacktrace, but it's not working... where is it all going wrong??" debugging sessions thanks to them!


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    #326
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Ah that's where my handy "here1" "here2" etc come in :D


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    #327
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    zynaps wrote: »
    Mmm, empty catch block madness... had a couple of "no error messages or stacktrace, but it's not working... where is it all going wrong??" debugging sessions thanks to them!

    Same here. Maddening! Depending on the development environment you use, you can set your debugger to break on all exceptions, caught or not.


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    #328
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 7,859 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    I found this catch block today actually:
    } catch (Exception ex) {
    // hitting this probably means a bug as we have not anticipated the error condition
    ...
    }


    At least it was followed by some error logging stuff.


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    #329
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    bpmurray wrote: »
    For those of you who are enamoured of Heather's Animations, be informed that Heather is an amateur at this stuff: http://www.lingscars.com/

    She did an In The Well on boards a few years ago

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63898510

    Also http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=84302514&postcount=22

    She's daft as a brush (meant in a nice sense), but her site and biz is kind of consistent with her eccentric branding. She also has a nifty office system when alerts the staff when people visit the site. I'm a bit surprised she hasn't responded to this thread to give a few kicks in the behind/bitch-slap.


    It's well worth going through her posts for a good laugh and some interesting insights and stories. Once appeared on Dragons Den too.


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    #330
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,031 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Reviewed a lovely Sonar driven refactor recently


    if (someVar < 10)


    was refactored to remove the magic number.
    Now we have

    public static final int TEN = 10;
    ...
    if (someVar < TEN)

    genius.

    I cant wait until requirements changes and I see
    public static final int TEN = 11;


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    #331
    zynaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭zynaps


    GreeBo wrote: »
    public static final int TEN = 10;
    ...
    if (someVar < TEN)

    genius.

    I cant wait until requirements changes and I see
    public static final int TEN = 11;
    One possible future: 
    public static final int TEN = 10; // kept for backward compatibility
public static final int TEN2 = 11;
...
//if (someVar < TEN) // kept for backward compatibility
if (someVar < TEN2)


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