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Colonel Panic · 25-04-2012 7:54am

It's also generally thought that they charge a lot but deliver very little and burn out junior developers very quickly.

I've found some consultants from the big 6 seriously good, others not so much, much like anything.

conor.hogan.2 · 30-04-2012 10:59pm

Not a coding horror but doesn't fit into another thread:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityManager.html#isUserAMonkey()

Seth Brundle · 01-05-2012 9:20am

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Not a coding horror but doesn't fit into another thread:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityManager.html#isUserAMonkey()

Monkey is an emulator software used to stress test the application:
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/monkey.html

Basq · 09-05-2012 11:07am

Not coding so much as design but..

Hey Lidl...

You really should have an option to hide that big blue ribbon, it's obscuring your offers and there's no option to hide it!

:mad:

Seth Brundle · 09-05-2012 11:32am

Basq wrote: »

You really should have an option to hide that big blue ribbon, it's obscuring your offers and there's no option to hide it!

...except for the Close button (black rectangle with white text)

edit: mmm garlic chicken Kiev

Basq · 09-05-2012 11:45am

Ah jaysus.. just spotted that now. Still, it's hardly intuitive given it's distance from the ribbon..

Was looking for something more like this:

conor.hogan.2 · 23-05-2012 11:54pm

http://www.galwaydrumschool.com/

Ugh.

Seth Brundle · 24-05-2012 12:05am

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

http://www.galwaydrumschool.com/

Ugh.

"Quicktime needs your permission to run" - get to f...

AlmightyCushion · 24-05-2012 12:29am

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

http://www.galwaydrumschool.com/

Ugh.

What? You mean you don't like it when text follows your cursor across the screen.

conor.hogan.2 · 24-05-2012 1:57am

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

What? You mean you don't like it when text follows your cursor across the screen.

I don't like any of it. It is the worst website I have seen by far

Even the source is annoying. The music is only minorly funky, not funky enough to warrant auto playing….

AlmightyCushion · 24-05-2012 2:00am

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

I don't like any of it. It is the worst website I have seen by far

Even the source is annoying. The music is only minorly funky, not funky enough to warrant auto playing….

I've seen worse, but they were ones that were deliberately awful. I did see one that was worse than that (and it was a lot worse) but I can't remember the link.

conor.hogan.2 · 24-05-2012 2:02am

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I've seen worse, but they were ones that were deliberately awful. I did see one that was worse than that (and it was a lot worse) but I can't remember the link.

I saw a few that were worse but as you say I then found out they were deliberately bad for one reason or another.

This looks 100% genuine as far as I can tell.

zynaps · 24-05-2012 2:02am

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

http://www.galwaydrumschool.com/

Now that's a classy website! Not in the least bit tacky and 1998. With these Ferrero Rocher you're really spoiling us...

Korvanica · 24-05-2012 3:32pm

Kill it with fire !

Am I the only one who played with the text for a few minutes? :pac:

Basq · 24-05-2012 3:39pm

The most hideous site I've seen recently is the official website for 'Game Of Thrones' author George R.R Martin.

Surely with the surge both in sales and visitors due to the TV series, someone who represents him would do something with it.

Varying hues of purple.. really?!

allaboutclicks · 24-05-2012 6:58pm

I know as web designer I shouldn't admit this - but I really like that design. It's so 90s. I think it's cute out.

StupidLikeAFox · 02-06-2012 1:46am

I found the little text following the cursor a sorta cool. Probably wont be seeing it on Google, Amazon or Facebook or anytime soon

matrim · 02-06-2012 11:26pm

ColHol wrote: »

I found the little text following the cursor a sorta cool. Probably wont be seeing it on Google, Amazon or Facebook or anytime soon

When I first learned JavaScript back in about 1999, that was one of the first things I learned and I thought it was so amazing

Seth Brundle · 03-06-2012 10:53am

matrim wrote: »

When I first learned JavaScript back in about 1999, that was one of the first things I learned and I thought it was so amazing

I learnt it about then too. Never thought it was cool though!

Mr.Plough · 06-06-2012 11:42pm

So for my masters thesis I picked 5 topics and got my 4th choice, which involves developing a coordinate system using the Xbox kinect. My degree is mechanical engineering why is this even an option. It sounded a hell of a lot easier than it is and I have just about zero programming experience.

Has anyone worked with the Kinect SDK here?

John_Mc · 08-06-2012 11:35am

Mr.Plough wrote: »

So for my masters thesis I picked 5 topics and got my 4th choice, which involves developing a coordinate system using the Xbox kinect. My degree is mechanical engineering why is this even an option. It sounded a hell of a lot easier than it is and I have just about zero programming experience.

Has anyone worked with the Kinect SDK here?

Not really the thread to post this, would be better to post it in it's own so it gets attention from people who may be experienced with it.

Raging_Ninja · 15-06-2012 6:28pm

Mr.Plough wrote: »

So for my masters thesis I picked 5 topics and got my 4th choice, which involves developing a coordinate system using the Xbox kinect. My degree is mechanical engineering why is this even an option. It sounded a hell of a lot easier than it is and I have just about zero programming experience.

Has anyone worked with the Kinect SDK here?

its the design tool of the future. kinect has lots of uses outside of gaming in many various fields, from a learning tool for mentally challenged kids, to assisting in surgery, to designing structures.

it'll be a good project, sounds interesting and will stand by you in the future.

Mr.Plough · 25-09-2012 11:05pm

Mr.Plough wrote: »

So for my masters thesis I picked 5 topics and got my 4th choice, which involves developing a coordinate system using the Xbox kinect. My degree is mechanical engineering why is this even an option. It sounded a hell of a lot easier than it is and I have just about zero programming experience.

Has anyone worked with the Kinect SDK here?

Got a 1st :eek: Turned out to be quite enjoyable once the panic stage was over.

zynaps · 25-09-2012 11:25pm

Mr.Plough wrote: »

Got a 1st :eek: Turned out to be quite enjoyable once the panic stage was over.

Excellent, nicely done! I'm sure the skills you picked up will come in handy in future

evercloserunion · 04-10-2012 12:35am

Something very endearing about that GRRM site.

Boards.ie: Danny · 16-10-2012 11:30am

So we had a problem on Boards I'm working through fixing where we update a thread prefix, rebuild the cache but the cache still has the old phrase. I've narrowed it down to a function, but the docblock has made me wonder if I should look within at all

[php]
/**
* Reads a language or languages and updates the language db table with the denormalized phrase cache
*
* @param integer ID of language to be built; if -1, build all
* @param integer Not sure actually... any ideas?
*/
function build_language($languageid = -1, $phrasearray = 0)[/php]

If the programmer doesn't know what a parameter does, do I really want to fix this? Thanks vBulletin

Capt'n Midnight · 16-10-2012 12:34pm

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

If the programmer doesn't know what a parameter does, do I really want to fix this? Thanks vBulletin

phrasearray ?

LOL reminds me of ye olde Netware - hadn't realised that Vaxen used too

FIRE PHASERS 3 TIMES

donalg1 · 16-10-2012 12:38pm

Basq wrote: »

The most hideous site I've seen recently is the official website for 'Game Of Thrones' author George R.R Martin.

Surely with the surge both in sales and visitors due to the TV series, someone who represents him would do something with it.

Varying hues of purple.. really?!

:eek:

I can only do the most basic sites using HTML and CSS learned in the evenings through W3 Schools and a few other books and all I can say is wow that site is awful, what the hell are they thinking.

ChRoMe · 08-11-2012 5:46pm

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

So we had a problem on Boards I'm working through fixing where we update a thread prefix, rebuild the cache but the cache still has the old phrase. I've narrowed it down to a function, but the docblock has made me wonder if I should look within at all

[php]
/**
* Reads a language or languages and updates the language db table with the denormalized phrase cache
*
* @param integer ID of language to be built; if -1, build all
* @param integer Not sure actually... any ideas?
*/
function build_language($languageid = -1, $phrasearray = 0)[/php]

If the programmer doesn't know what a parameter does, do I really want to fix this? Thanks vBulletin

You are working in PHP, not knowing what that param does is the least of your problems tbh.

Boards.ie: Danny · 08-11-2012 5:51pm

ChRoMe wrote: »

You are working in PHP, not knowing what that param does is the least of your problems tbh.

Without PHP you wouldn't have anywhere to write that post, lets leave the language wars for another thread?

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