The Weird and The Wonderful

martin_hughes wrote:
...and what a system! Hundreds of un-normalized tables, no relationships, only a passing attempt at primary keys... and thousands of plain text user details received over the web (which I later found out were sent via email from the website to the "Internet" Dept, including, but not limited to: passwords, personal info such as date of birth and security confirmation questions and credit card details - including expiry dates!

You didn't happen to save the coloring books, did you? I mean what other documentation could they have had?

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Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007

Sadly not - but I did liberate a (new, untouched) copy of E-Commerce for Dummies from the IT & Communication Manager's office Smile | :)

Apparently they were too embarassed to read it. Nor have they watched the News either, bringing up all kinds of credit card fiascos in the last 5 years. Management - what do we pay them for again?
Poke tongue | ;-P

A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007

This very dangerous for you, because such chiefs are running your company into trouble. Cry | :((

"Get Away while you can" Mad | :mad:

Greetings from Germany

Too true - but the comedy value of things going horrible wrong all the time is worth it Smile | :)

I know the "Mouse is starring at the snake" Story too much out of my own experience, so I made the princiole decision, if I am in such case I gotta do something. One option is ALWAYS "run away". Unsure | :~

Greetings from Germany

you must work at my company... I'd laugh but it hurts too much. Frown | :(

((

Fun #1:

1. Go to any website (eg: Google Personalized HomePage)
2. Delete everything in the address bar
3. paste the following code in the address bar:
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300;
y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0;
i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5;
DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval(’A()’,5); void(0);
4. Press enter and have fun! Smile | :)

Thanks to Grim.

Fun #2:

1. Go to Google Classic Homepage (*NOT Personalized Home.*))
2. Delete everything in the address bar
3. paste the following code in the address bar:

javascript:i=100;void(setInterval("i++;document.images[1].width=i",5),setInterval("i++;document.images[1].height=i",5),setInterval("i++;document.images[2].width=i",5),setInterval("i++;document.images[2].height=i",5),setInterval("i++;document.images[3].width=i",5),setInterval("i++;document.images[3].height=i",5),setInterval("i++;document.images[4].width=i",5)
,setInterval("i++;document.images[4].height=i",5) )
4. Press Enter

Thanks to Harpreet and Philip(Ye Maung).

Fun #3:

1. Launch Internet Explorer
2. Delete everything in the address bar
3. paste the following code in the address bar:

javascript:function flood(n) {if (self.moveBy) {for (i = 15; i > 0;i–){for
(j = n; j > 0; j–){self.moveBy(1,i);self.moveBy(i,0);self.moveBy(0,-i);self.moveBy(-i,0);
} } }}flood(6);{ var inp = "MIKE morf ,ecnavda ni RAEY WEN YPPAH ,iH"; var outp
= ""; for (i = 0; i <= inp.length; i++) {outp =inp.charAt (i) + outp ; }
alert(outp) ;}; reverse
4. Press Enter

Thanks to the author of this post.

Fun #4: last but not least Smile | :)

1. Launch Internet Explorer
2. Delete everything in the address bar
3. paste the following code in the address bar:

javascript:function reverse() { var inp = " )-: krow ru no yrrac ko.mih morf
nraeL .seod CNYS LEAHCIM ekil krow lufesu emos oD .esnesnon siht lla gniod rof
uoy gniyap ton si ynapmoC"; var outp = ""; for (i = 0; i <= inp.length; i++) {
outp = inp.charAt (i) + outp ; } alert(outp) ;}; reverse()
4. Press Enter

Source Download : [Funny] Playing with Javascript

Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

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Well none of these did anything in either IE or FireFox, what was I supposed to see?

"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey."
Bill Gates

It did something.

maybe. cuz of HTML text...

You may download the txt file from this link http://michaelsync.net/2007/02/28/fun-playing-with-javascript/

let me know if it doesn't work.

Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

I tried them all in all browsers and nothing happens

"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean."
Tom Welch

Have you downloaded the txt file? If you haven't, please download the txt file.

You can check the comments in that post. The script works for those commenter when they download the txt file. I think that copying code from post make some problems.

It should work on either firefox or IE6/7.

Please try again. Hope it works. Smile | :)

Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

Turn on firebug and you will see it's doing a lot... errors. Smile | :)

"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus
"Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

I'm sorry, but how does this fit into the Coding Horrors section? Have you encountered these items in development/production? They just seem to be "amusing" things to do with JavaScript.

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I think it's clear that Michael Sync is a Coding Horror!

Phil

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>>I think it's clear that Michael Sync is a Coding Horror!
Smile | :)

>>Turn on firebug and you will see it's doing a lot... errors.
this is code horror..

Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

yep very true Smile | :)

Regards,
Sylvester G

Regards,

Satips. Rose | [Rose]

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow;
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead;
Walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus

First one:

R=0;
x1=.1;
y1=.05;
x2=.25;
y2=.24;
x3=1.6;
y3=.24;
x4=300;
y4=200;
x5=300;
y5=200;
DI=document.images;
DIL=DI.length;
function A() {
for(i=0; i-DIL; i++) {
DIS = DI[ i ].style;
DIS.position="absolute";
DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5;
DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5
}
R++
}
setInterval("A()",5);
void(0);

It gave errors on DIS.position=’absolute’ and setInterval(’A()’,5)
Because ’ != '

nothing happened... what are we supposed to see? WTF | :WTF:

Programming wth threads is not easy as many newbies think. A few years back my company was downsized and I had to take ownership of some code written by another programmer. The first thing I had to fix was some resource leaks when a given task was canceled. The task itself happened on a worker thread. The UI thread had a cacel button to cancel the task.

After examining the code, I found the following:

void CTaskProgessDialog::OnCancel()
{
   TerminateThread(m_pWorkThread->m_hHandle);
}

void CWorkerThread::DoTask()
{
  AcquireResources();

  // code that does something

  ReleaseResources();
}

That's a "double horror" - using TerminateThread, and not using RAII for handling resources (admitedly, it wouldn't help in this case, since TerminateThread does not unwind the stack).

I have learned some Erlang[^] recently, and it really made me re-think the way I write multithreaded code.

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As mentioned the termination of a thread should be internal, not with a Terminate command. Set a flag and wait for self-termination. You never know if a thread has a socket or file open, or any other resources. You can't simply say, no thread can ever aquire resources, and with multi-core and multi-processor allowing two simultaneous operations, it is even more difficult to judge if a terminate signal will work without memory leak even with back-to-back aquire()/release() because the terminate can occur in the middle of aquiring, before releasing, or in the middle of releasing. Terminates should all be handled gracefully from inside. The "code that does something" needs to check for a terminate early flag and release resources (if any) and go on. Simply putting aquire/release back to back will not save you. This is a common failure even with experts on threading thinking that back-to-back operations will not be interrupted. It's all a roll of the dice, back to back operations may make you think everything is okay because chances are reduced, but eventually it will show up as a problem, and then it will be difficult to repeat it for debugging.

remember the core premise of threading: thou shalt not commit murder, all threads should be directed to suicide. Wink | ;)

_________________________
Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

Sure!

I can't believe how many programmers (even experienced ones) don't know this.