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Screenshot Of The Day

uhm… what should I choose? This very useful dialog pops up when you aren’t an administrator on Windows 2003, annoying you until you decide that it’s time to reboot. Or find someone that can do it, that is. I guess … Continue reading

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Don’t shout at your hard drives!

It appears that hard drives don’t like it… It also proves that some sysadmins have far too much time to spare.

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If at first you don’t succeed… try, try again…

Here’s another interesting piece of code I’ve just dug up in a C# application I’m reviewing. If you can come up with a bright idea about what those try/catch blocks are supposed to do, you’ve got more imagination than me… … Continue reading

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Don’t code like this at home, kids

Sometimes when you’re reviewing someone else’s code, you find interesting pieces of “art“. Like the following loop construct in a C# application: 123456789101112    int i = anArray.Length – 1;     while (true)     {       … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

I always assumed the designers of the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks trust me to know what I’m doing while I find very elegant ways to shoot myself in the foot. – from a mail sent to Cocoa-dev

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Quote of the Day

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Quote of the Day

You know it’s Monday when you wake up and it’s Tuesday. — Garfield

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Quote of the day

Out of the darkness a voice spoke unto me, saying “smile, things could be worse”. So I smiled, and so, things became worse. (from the signature of an email I’ve just read)

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