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Maciej works as a freelancer, and that frequently means picking up old PHP code that nobody wants to support.
One project had been lingering for ages with key features missing. Specifically, it was supposed to make HTTP requests to other services on an interval, and use that to populate its data. "The old dev tried, but never got it working." It was Maciej's turn to give it a shot.
"You submitted a pull request."
Indika was, in fact, reviewing the comments she'd gotten on that very same pull request, when her boss, Bill, walked up behind her. What she didn't understand is why Bill said it like it was an accusation.
Eric O was trawling through an API for handling concurrency, and found this little mismatch between the comment and the definition:
/// <summary>
/// private Status, because while this object needs to be able to set the status, consumers should only be able to check it, lest everything break.
/// </summary>
public StatusType Status {
get {
return _status;
}
set {
if (value != _status) {
RaisePropertyChanged("Status");
}
}
}
I moved some things around on my calendar. 4:00 PM today is open. Please come to the executive floor.-Leila
Looked to the past for some time-traveling entries to round out a themed post. They're 25% fresh.
Robert apparently got a notification of a planned past delivery. It could be just a case of two systems that don't report different time zones, but even so, that's a wtf. Says he: "I just received an email from OnePlus this morning letting me know they have updated the planned delivery date for my order to Yesterday. I guess the delivery driver is going to time travel to get there on time since it still hasn't arrived. "
Greta (previously) sends us more updates from her "Ancient Development Environment".
An important task an IDE must do is report build errors to its users. Arguably, that's one of the most important parts. I wouldn't know, I insist on building from the CLI all the time, because IDEs confuse and frighten me. I recognize I'm the weird one here, who is more comfortable in GDB than in a GUI debugger, but this isn't about me, it's about the IDE Greta is using.
Frederick A sends us a bit of null checking code, and offers us a better solution.
class ConferenceService
{
/// <summary>
/// Checks if conference is active
/// </summary>
public bool IsCalling()
{
try
{
return m_ConnectionService.Core.State.IsWebRTCConnected;
}
catch
{
return false;
}
}
}
Frequent submitter Capybara James sends us this simple snippet, which highlights that even when you have the lovely convenience of Optional types, you can use them wrong.
if (StringUtils.hasLength(dto.getAssetModelUUID())
// Other conditions
) {
return Optional.ofNullable(dto);
}