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Evil Phil wrote: »

If you remember the name of it zynaps can you post it here? Sounds really good.

• "Checkstyle" (and corresponding Eclipse plugin, sadly not updated since 2006)
• "Findbugs", seems more recently updated, but some of the website is down anyway :rolleyes:

if($_value->getTitle() == "None") { /* do stuff */ }
else if($_value->getTitle() == "Basic Widget") { /* do stuff */ }
else if($_value->getTitle() == "More Expensive Widget A" || $_value->getTitle() == "More Expensive Widget B") { /* do stuff */ }
else if($_value->getTitle() == "Contact my specialist, I do not have XXXX") { /* do stuff */ }
else if($_value->getTitle() == "I will fax a copy to +353 (0)123 4567890" 
	|| $_value->getTitle() == "You already have my details on file" 
	|| $_value->getTitle() == "I will scan and email a copy to <a href='mailto:info@12345672222domain.com'>info@12345672222domain.com</a>" 
	|| $_value->getTitle() == "I will fax a copy to 1890 123456")  { /* do stuff */ }
else if($_value->getTitle() == "I will be responsible for my details and i will input it below")  { /* do stuff */ }

lil_lisa wrote: »

Someone discovered this over in AH in the source code of a website:

[HTML]<!--
-\-
\-- \-
\ - -\
\ \\
\ \
\ \\
\ \\
\ \\
\ \\\
\ \\
\ \\
\. . \\
\ . \\
\ . \\
\ . \\
\ . \\
\ <=)
\ <==)
\ <=)
\ .\\ _-
\ . \\ _-//
\ . \\ _-_/ /
\ . . . \\ _--_/ _/
\ \\ _- _/ _/
\ \\ ___-(O) _/ _/
\ \ __-- __ /_ / ***********************************
\ \\ ____--__---- / \_ I AM A MOTHER****ING PTERODACTYL!
\ \\

---

/ \_ \_ HERE TO PTERO-YOU A NEW ASSHOLE
\ \ // // \__ \_ [url]HTTP://PTERODACTYL.ME[/url]
\ \\ // // \_ \_ **********************************
\ \\ /// // \__-
\ - \\///////// //
\ - \_ //
/ - //
/ - ///
/ - //
__--/ ///
__________/ // |
//-_________ ___ //// |
____\__--/ ///// |

---

______ -/---________//// |
_______/ --/ \ |
/_________-/ \ |
// \ /
\. /
\ . /
\ . /
\\ . /
\ /
\ __|
\ ==/
/ //
/ . //
/ . . //
/. /
/ //
/ /
/ //
/ //
--/ /
/ //
//// //
///_________////


-->[/HTML]

**Phil, I'm assuming since we shouldn't name companies, the same goes for websites?

dropstar wrote: »

A great example was last week, when we were about to go RC, and our CEO comes over to our development team lead and suggests a new feature - while we're testing to go RC. The mental thing is, they put it in. So we're writing new code while testing what is supposedly a finished product.

	//checkIData is an NSMutableArray alloc'd elsewhere
	if (checkIData != nil) 
	{
		@try
		{
			NSLog(@"RC: %i",[checkIData retainCount]);//I crash here!
			[checkIData release];
			
		}
		@catch (id e) {
			//wtf!
			int i = 0;
		}
	}

Civilian_Target wrote: »

Ooof - I was adding some new features to old code the other day (in java), and I came across an entire class, implementing an interface, defined.... in a method call!

I mean, you can, but WHY?!

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I thought you were supposed to learn the basics in a text editor without syntax highlighting so you would learn it better.

Still gedit or notepad2 might sort out a lot of basic stuff before they start on an IDE

grandmaster wrote: »

Perl. I hate it.

It is very hard to read and some of the code editors add in full stops instead of spaces/tabs so sometimes I can't tell if I'm looking at a tab/space or specially written code (I think Perl uses a full stop to concatenate strings just to confuse matters).

Also annoying to be working in a development environment that I don't understand with perl modules all over the place and no good test environment with which to test my changes.

A massively, massively frustrating experience.

Skrynesaver wrote: »

Only if the person writing it doesn't write clearly, any language can suffer from obfuscation

Sorry to hear that, but it sounds as though you were dropped into a dev environment that you are unprepared for, I would ask for training if I were you.

Joseph... wrote: »

dont bring troubles

Joseph... wrote: »

*trouble

komodosp wrote: »

I'm sick of code that's not properly indented! FFS, D********r has the ability to indent a block of code at a time so you've no excuses

And maybe there's something I don't get here, but why have a <?php .... ?> on every line of php code? It makes it very hard to read and edit - just have a <?php at the start and ?> at the end of the block of code.

Korvanica wrote: »

started a new job a while ago, NONE of the code is commented.... 80k lines of code? Lovely thanks for that...

populateResultMap(); // get the result map
int i = map.get("val"); // get val from the new map
if(i > -1)
  params[i+1] = true; // set the appropriate parameter
return dance(params); // do a dance

komodosp wrote: »

Well if this exists in Dreamweaver (CS5) I'd like to know where it is!

A quick Google search turns up these two possibilities:

* Commands > Apply Formatting
* Commands > Clean up HTML

Sparks wrote: »

And then you check in the code with clearcase, and someone else goes to findmerge in your changes and suddenly has thousands of merge fixes that they have to do by hand because clearcase doesn't know how to cope with changes in whitespace sanely..

Korvanica wrote: »

WHY CANT PEOPLE COMMENT CODE!

dim n as integer ' variable used for for loop.
for n = 1 to 10 ' This is the start of a for loop.
  call method()  ' Calling method. 
next n              ' Continue until 10 iterations.
' END OF LOOP!