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BBC has something called "Holy Flying Circus" - a pythonesque comedy drama about the furore around "Life of Brian"
Weirdly entertaining, though only part way through.
Half of Punt and Denis is doing an excellent Eric Idle impression.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I'm surprised they didn't get Eric Idle to do the Eric Idle impression. Still, always look on the bright side of life...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Keith Barrow wrote: Half of Punt and Denis is doing an excellent Eric Idle impression.
The top half?
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In the article 10 Bad Coding Practices That Wreck Software Development Projects[^] the #1 bad coding practice is "Typo's in your code"...
Not sure if typo's are a 'practice', but that's not even my point.
Now here's the fun part: "Avoid words such as receive, which easily be misspelled receive without being obvious."
So receive is easily misspelled as receive? I think the author made a typo there by correctly spelling receive! Apparently receive isn't so hard to spell after all. Recieve is difficult though, it's often misspelled as receive.
In the news the day after tomorrow: 10 Bad Blogging Practices, #1 Irony in your blog... 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Well spotted!
Is this the beginning of the 'dumbing down' of programming?
it already drives me mad when I see methods called 'Update2Database' or properties of 'Discount4Customer'
Next we'll be allowing punctuation in variable names so we can have methods called 'GiveDiscount ' and 'DeductTax
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Is this the beginning of the 'dumbing down' of programming?
The beginning? I think it's cyclic, with the problems as well as the 'solutions' always remaining the same. There are always those to whom thinking and learning must be incredibly painful. They will do anything to avoid this pain.
The current environment, program languages, paradigms, best practices or whatever do not matter. They will always produce an unstructured mess full of sinister hacks. And they will be insulted when someone points out what a mess their code is. After all it works, or at least it pretends to do so.
That's why they are always looking for magic ways to make things easier. New languages, new tools, new rules. It does not really matter. It does not eliminate learning or thinking. They just repeat the mistakes of the past and once in a while everything that has been accomplished must be thrown overboard for something else and then slowly be regained. Or does anybody really think that an untyped, poorly structured interpreter like JavsScript really is the best bet we have?
Learn some algorithms, plan with data structures and not with tons of single variables, learn how to structure your code in a sane way and learn how to build libraries instead of copying and pasting without thinking. With this you can be very productive in any environment and in any language.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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The kids growing up today will be learning well, I think (those coming through primary and junior now, anyway) because of things like Scratch[^] which can help get them to think in a structured manner.
Trouble is, we also need the teachers who can teach them well - and there's the rub.
I've been at meetings with IT teachers at senior schools, where the teacher is explaining how they can't program themselves, so try to skew the lessons toward design and just really simple programming.
Would a maths teacher admit he couldn't add up?
sorry - went off at a tangent 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: methods called 'Update2Database' or properties of 'Discount4Customer'
_Maxxx_ wrote: methods called 'GiveDiscount ' and 'DeductTax
Something like L33t[^] or LOLCODE[^]?
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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And now i think you are about to achieve your goal right? oops...Achieved..! Congratulations....
Have a best ever year ahead...Happy bday in Advance..!
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Thanks - Yep - I hadn't noticed it was there already!
Now I'll have to treat myself to something else for my B'day!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Fairly uninspired article, but I never knew that about Twitter (they had to abandon Ruby) so I learned something I guess
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Incorrectly typed code is only incorrect when it is typed incorrectly.
That, and ~
Everything is or is not ice cream.
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Thanks for directing me to read a complete lot of twaddle on which I wasted a couple of minutes. At least I know that I can safely ignore anything by Paul Rubens in future.
Has he ever worked on a software project? There is little evidence here.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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That was my first reaction. Having said that , I have come across many pedants who put minor issues of spelling and layout above the primary issues of functionality , reliability and extensibility. Its hard to argue with them .So just like religious bigots I simply say my piece and then ignore them . I think Paul Rubens will be given a wide berth in the future.
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I can live with pedants. I may be one myself. To assert "10 Coding Practices That Wreck Software Development Projects" suggests a narcissistic personality to go with it. I try to steer clear of them.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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So, still got a bit of jet lag and was up at 0400, wide awake, even though I didn't go to bed till about 2345.
What, I thought, should I do?
So I made some tea and toast and proceeded to watch the 2nd pilot for Star Trek. It was actually pretty good other than Spock just shouting all of his lines.
What I did notice, for the first time, was that Kirk's tombstone read James R Kirk, not James T. I'm sure I've watched that episode multiple times and never spotted that before.
Still the best of all the ST series. My favorite episode is "Tomorrow is Yesterday".
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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It was ground breaking, but the stories were a little...simple.
And the ending was kinda predictable.
But I still loved it, and indeed do.
But favorite? I'm not sure. Better than Next Gen, better than Enterprise.
But DS9 when it was working well? I don't think so - DS9 gave a better sense of "depth", of a "real" galaxy and with story arcs that continued across whole series it was better in some ways. Of course, it also had Quark...and no Uhura...
But Voyager was good as well - once they dumped Kes (and they should have dropped Nelix in a black hole, annoying worm that he was).
So I can't say the original was best - but the remake of the original is shaping up well from the two movies so far!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: the remake of the original is shaping up well from the two movies so far
Yes, really rather good. They are, of course, predictable nonsense but really good fun.
It did take me a good few years to realize that Star Trek probably wasn't a documentary.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: Star Trek probably wasn't a documentary
It's not  ?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Pshaw, of course it's a documentary...the episodes are historical documents from the future brought back to us on one of their numerous jumps back in time. One of them forgot to turn off the Bluetooth on his tricorder and a hacker blue-jacked it and downloaded them, then posted them on YouTube
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OriginalGriff wrote: But Voyager was good as well - once they dumped Kes
Not least because that's when a certain crew-member[^] joined.
If you've got access to the annoyingly-named "SyFy" channel, they're showing TNG, DS9 and Voyager every weeknight.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oh, she certainly helped! 
One of my favorite spoofs[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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She's okay but I much prefer T'Pol[^]
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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T'Pol gets my vote too.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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mark merrens wrote: the 2nd pilot for Star Trek
Where? The last time I looked for it Netflix didn't have it.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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