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lol, i just hope my boss could visit this site and learn a little!
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martin_hughes wrote: YOU'RE FIRED! BE OUT OF THE BUILDING IN 5 MINUTES!
Rephrasing the sentence a bit; If the building is fire, everyone should evacuate it sooner the better. 5 minutes is too long time to survive the flames. 
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I just remember another one!!!!!
Public Class Order<br />
Public Sub New (CmbClient as Combobox, dtpOrder as DatePicker, etc. etc.)<br />
End Sub<br />
End Class
That's what i call OOP!
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Have you ever seen FORTRAN 66, BASIC as it was implemented on an Apple IIe? In the light of those languages, this code seems quite reasonable. If you can, try to find out the background of your Boss' and that will help explain why he does what he does.
Phil
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Think of it like this: he didn't hire you to fire you because you think his coding is bad. In fact he hired you because you're the better programmer 
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Thany
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thany.org wrote: In fact he hired you because you're the better programmer
True. The recruitment process should weigh the most optimistics ones and how best it can be benefit for the organization's growth besides helping out the candidate's career mutually.
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This is why some bosses should not be programmers 
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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RoswellNX wrote:
xthumbnail-orig-image
But I can not find this attribute in W3C HTML description also? 
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Well, i didn't even bother checking if such thing existed, but it's the first time i'm seeing something like this as well. I'm assuming it's just some auto-generated IE-specific Microsoft crap. At least the the meta generator is labeled as Frontpage 6.0
Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA
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RoswellNX wrote: At least the the meta generator is labeled as Frontpage 6.0
I agree. The HTML generated by it (and its successor) is horrendous really. It makes the applications to just get locked down to IE Shop, making us shiver before our Project Manager on accounts of cross-browser compatibility. 
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And this Frontpage behavior is what pushed me to writing my own markup (and later code as went into web dev) four years ago (otherwise i would have stuck to computer graphics and illustration). When i found out that on Macs even under IE, the "IE-specific" stuff rendered horribly. Apparently Ms stepped into their own pile of sh*t :->
Roswell
P.S. I hope you've seen the updated 1st post, now that i've realized that i forgot to escape a few of the angle brackets
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA
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RoswellNX wrote: Apparently Ms stepped into their own pile of sh*t
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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There is no substitute for hand-written HTML; just say "no" to code generators.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: There is no substitute for hand-written HTML; just say "no" to code generators.
True, and that's not my own code, it's a project i've been hired to maintain, and chances are it will end up being a complete rebuild. I've actually drawn up (on paper) the design already in case the guy will agree to go forward with it.
Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA
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The real WTF here is... whoops, wrong site
Having worked with HTML for years, it surprises me that there are still no really good wysiwyg editors. I hope soon that html will just be a bad memory and something far better, and editor friendly, replaces the hell spawned duo of html and css.
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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Wow!
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">BOS being loaded with MSW using front end loader</span>.
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A few years back, I had to use DB2 on AIX machine as the database for my ASP.NET 1.1 application. The provider had an interesting bug. When a Primary Key constraint is violated by inserting a duplicate record, it wouldn't throw a simple exception but an ExecutionEngineException would get invoked. I came across the then forum post, one of my team members posted then over here (http://www.dbforums.com/archive/index.php/t-479734.html[^])
We also cross-checked this provider issue using ASP and it was just giving the message "Exceptions occured".
Interestingly, the DB2 ODBC Driver works fine. I was just curious at least if the later versions of DB2 OLEDB Provider are free of this malady.
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We use a third-party managed provider from DataDirect[^] for connecting to DB2. If possible, prefer a native .NET provider to using an OLE DB provider through OleDbConnection or an ODBC driver through OdbcConnection.
We looked at IBM's own managed provider but discovered it wasn't compatible with the customer's security settings (I forget the details, I think they were still using plaintext password authentication).
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As interesting as this is, is it really a Coding Horror? There's no code for us to gasp and recoil in fear from, then laugh shakily when we realise that we can see the wires.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote: There's no code for us to gasp and recoil in fear from
It isn't a big deal. I have also given a situation where the provider crashes. A simple table with a Unique or Primary Key. A Console Application that tries to violate the primary key by inserting a duplicate value is enough to detonate the setup.
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i am converting code in basic language from CASIO FX 880P, blindly into vb.net CF... guess what, vb.net doesnt support the GOSUB statement anymore.. many gosub statements in the source code perform recurrsions...
if i cud only find the starting end of this noodle.. hmmmm
All Rights Reserved! All Wrongs Revenged!
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Is it really so hard to read and understand the forum guidelines?
Regards,
mav
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Black holes are the places where God divided by 0...
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This forum is not a place to ask for help to a problem, but rather discuss what programming horror you have run across and how you fixed it/avoided it (note the past tense here). Try the programming forums for programming questions/problems
As far as gosub is concerned, you have to take the code that is referenced by the gosub and refactor it into a procedure. Then, call the procedure. Just a bit of code converting ahead for you
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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