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Nice article, thanks for thinking about me!  
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Since it is sooo slow in the lounge today, I was forced to peruse some of the recent articles...it was either that or do work.  Anyhow, I just came across my favorite new quote from this article:
Introduction to the 'Fail Fast!' Principle in Software Development[^]
Quote: If a function be advertised to return an error code in the event of difficulties, thou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing fingers, for if thou thinkest 'it cannot happen to me', the gods shall surely punish thee for thy arrogance."
- Harry Spencer
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yeah, I've been moved over to sometimes not even catching exceptions on user actions, or catching them, using a popup that says "that didn't work" and then swallowing it. I have much tighter handling in the services tier.
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Please read the words in red at the top of this page.
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Sure you can. I don't think anybody will mind as long as you don't do it here.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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So, did anyone else contribute to the project? We're getting close to the ship date, and I can hardly wait to see the product. If you joined the fray, what ideas are you playing with to use this contraption?
Will Rogers never met me.
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You must mean the Omega 13[^]?
Sorry, I never heard of it, but it sounds like my kind of toy. Is it compact enough to send it flying [^]?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Nope. I mean the Omega 2 that was mentioned here months ago, a project being funded via Kickstarter.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Just checked it out... that's cool man.
Jeremy Falcon
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I know this will come as a surprise to absolutely everyone, but my winio tablet crashed, today.
It's only about the three-hundredth time it's crashed, in the few months I've had it, but this time it actually gave me an error code: 0x80070008.
"Wow!" thought I, "if they're finally going to the trouble of giving me something to look up, I guess I'd gosh-darned better look it up!"
So guess what I did.
Yup. I had dinner.
Later, I decided to google-with-yahoo the error code.
Apparently it's an "insufficient storage space" error, which I found somewhat surprising, given that there's tens of gig free space, and all I was doing when I got the error was logging in from a cold boot.
So I googled-with-yahoo further, finding a site named wikifixes, which sounds all very collaborative and nicey, that told me...
... Actually, it told me things completely different from what the ms MVP (Most Vainglorious Pillock) page had said.
Intrigued to the point of just-barely-incomplete ennui, I permitted my gaze to rest on the address bar.
It read: http://wikifixes.com/errors/b/0x/0x80070008/
That sounded perfectly reasonable, thought I -- but then I thought: "What if I change the final 8 to a 3?" (because 0x80070003 was another number that had shown up in my initial search results).
Lo and behold, it worked! It gave me information that was---
... Word-for-word verbatim (numbers notwithstanding, obviously) of the information given for 0x80070008.
Not only that, but it did exactly the same for any number!
In fact, not just numbers:
http://wikifixes.com/errors/b/0x/0xTheSiteOwnerisaLyingSh1thead/[^]
Click it, do!
The site is harmless (unless you click through to any generous offers of succour -- in which case, what the Hell are you doing on CP?), but I think it would be nice for the lying sh1thead to see in his logs that lots of people know that he's a lying sh1thead.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's a winio tab...
the first lookup was almost correct, remove the last 2 words:
"insufficient storage space"
Take 2 tabs, sleep early,
and in the morning google for trade-in opportunities.
repeat until entire dose completed.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
modified 5-Nov-16 1:38am.
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Looks like the thought of one (of many) who can't spell.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, but I'm talking about English, not some Johnny-Foreigner language.
-- Hsst! No-one tell him that "pyjamas" is an Indian word!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And even when misspelled, the word always makes me think of this.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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5:50 P.M. Friday: I'm in mine y'all!
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You must mean 5:15 AM, and I'm in my Ninja costume now. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Himmmm, knead two sleap on that won four ah wile
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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I've been working with a vendor on and off to replace functionality in our software that works perfectly (thanks client). For the last two months, I've been using their website API demo to test my work. Every time I send the JSON, the result comes out horribly wrong. I send a note to the vendor. Every time we have a call, the promise its been fixed and tested. Then I repeat test and send them the results.
Today, a different engineer for the vendor gets back to me and says my JSON has variables in the wrong place and move them in a very cryptic email. Once I move things around from the format they originally sent to the new one, it magically starts working.
Its hard to even express my frustration at the vendor. I've decided not to list the things I would like to do to the original engineer for now bothering to review what I sent for the last two months. This project could have been done if they had attention to details.
Hogan
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Um, that's "Attention to Detail".
Jus' sayin'.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I once worked with a client who wanted to send out faxes.
Luckily they had some third party tool that did all the heavy lifting.
All I had to do was send an email with a PDF attachment to some inbox.
No prob.
Except that the fax never got sent.
The tool they used had no documentation, I could not access the inbox, nor the server where they installed the software.
All I knew was "it isn't working."
So I called their sysadmin and he checked the logs and the server and the inbox, but he couldn't find anything and he'd call me back.
I called him a couple of times over a two week period, but he never had an answer and he never called me.
Then, months later, I got a call that I had to fix the faxing issue NOW!
So I told this guy I really didn't know anything, he said "hold on, I'll check" and not five minutes later he told me what was wrong and I was able to fix it 
Amazing how long a single guy can stall progress 
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