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I remember when SD Times was a heavyweight software journal.
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End-to-end (E2E) testing is a violation of social distancing, and, often, the bitter endings leave a bad taste in management's mouth, and pair programmer's divorce.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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The government's new report on UFOs means the truth has arrived—or has it? The Truth is in there
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Am I being overly cynical for observing that if the Pentagon [b]DID[/b] have proof that aliens were real those encounters would be ETFO reports (well actually something different that would be less obvious if leaked, but you get the point) and not included in the UFO report they were ordered to produce.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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But naturally. If they were known to be aliens, They wouldn't be Unidentified Flying Objects now, would they? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Truth! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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With the latest Visual Studio tools in preview and the Windows 11 Insider SDK, you’ll be able to take advantage of ARM64EC to incrementally transition your app to running with native speed on ARM, even if you have dependencies or plugins that don’t support ARM yet. Become ARMed and dangerous
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Except of course that it only works to bridge Arm64 and x64 binaries. And somehow I suspect most devs who can't do an arm64 build due to legacy binaries are stuck in 32bit x86 land.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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While this has many interesting applications, mouse movements can also reveal sensitive information about the users such as their age or gender. Mousers are from Mars; Trackpadders are from Venus
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I wonder what they'd make of those occasions when my mouse gets violently slammed onto the desk.
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Digikeyers are also from Mars.
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Windows Insider testers in the Dev Channel can download Windows 11 build 22000.51 and a first preview of the new Microsoft app store today. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"
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The new solution is a WinUI, Windows Community Toolkit and Uno Platform powered solution which runs on the Web, via Uno’s support for WebAssembly and .NET 6 for WebAssembly. Install everywhere
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There are many improvements coming to Visual Studio 2022, such as this new version being able to allocate more memory for a smoother experience even when dealing with large complex projects. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?"
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What's with VS2017, VS2019, and VS2022? I can't believe they're total rewrites, so I'm guessing they rewrite certain portions and call it a new vintage because they need to fix the bugs before encouraging users on older vintages to upgrade.
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Wasn't 2017 the one with THESE MENUS, 2019 they went back to mixed case, and 2022 is 64-bit (so at least a bit of a rewrite)?
TTFN - Kent
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I'm still on VS2017. I tried to install VS2019 once, but it failed, and since VS2017 works fine, I've had no incentive to retry. VS2017 menus are mixed case.
I'd be surprised if 64-bit affected even 1% of the code.
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Greg Utas wrote: I can't believe they're total rewrites...
They aren't. It's just that at those times the DB came close to overflowing integers for the count of how many times MS responded that something was a 'feature' instead of a bug.
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Greg Utas wrote: What's with VS2017, VS2019, and VS2022?
VS is mostly a continuing release now with minor feature/bug fix updates a few times/year. As minor updates they're not allowed to break back compatibility, apis, data formats, etc. Any breaking changes (along with the icon updates that break some people's minds) are held off until the next named release.
Having finally completed refactoring every part of the code base to build as 64bit is probably the biggest breaking change (to every VS plugin developer) in 2022.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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October 20th may be the Windows 11 day Just in time for the other ghoulies at Halloween?
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The question-and-answer site Quora may have strayed into a stereotype, when a user asked the loaded question, “Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?” I guess it's shocking for so many of you to find out you're mythical?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?”
I've been working as a developer for longer than 35-40 years, and have no plans to quit yet.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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With the workplaces I'm getting, it was dead when I was 27.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I've been doing it for money since 1980 (age 24). I've successfully managed to avoid management jobs for the entire time.
I've forgotten more stuff than most people know right now. One lady at work calls me "Mr. Know-It-All" because when she asks a question about coding, I have the answer.
I'm going to retire - as a programmer - when I turn 67 (two years).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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how was it...?
Who can, code. Who can't, write articles or go in management?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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