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"progressive meant kitschy" would make more sense to me. The other way would be an oxymoron.
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Hassan made a neat tool that could relieve everyone of a lot of drudge work. Miranda wound up occupying that niche, doing that very same drudge work for a salary. If, in the next paragraph, Miranda had jealously defended her niche, to the point of sabotaging the tool and slandering Hassan, this story would have started to sound eerily familiar.
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Access can handle that no problem if designed well. Anything else would be overkill for the specific task in hand.
I have over 20 ppl using an Access database at once with about a thousand updates a day. I am planning on moving over to SQL Server when it gets approved, but Access is still quite capible of doing the job for now.
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Technically, most of the Harry Potter padding was just there so that the story couldn't possibly resolve until the end of the school year.. even if that meant that the characters had to be selectively stupid.
Also, for some reason the Harry Potter filler was more interesting than:
"With 128MB, they struggled to keep up with Windows NT 4.0 and Office 97. He had persuaded the board to allocate millions to replace every workstation and server, and upgrade the infrastructure to match"
Maybe it's just an IT thing :)
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Back in my day, we had to punch our html onto cards with a hole-punch, and the Submit button was an actual physical button on the card reader. The web server had 256kw of memory, and Miranda was a 52-year-old clerk who took the web pages off the printer, separated them, and distributed them to the users waiting at the dispatch window.
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And even if the said 1999-vintage M$ shop had heard of Apache, PHP, and MySQL, those pieces of software would be regarded by management as:
Given the other massive M$ spends that Hassan's shop were making: if they were going to do ANYthing Web-based, I'd more or less guarantee they would have gone with IIS and MS-SQL Server.
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Nice troll. Hope you catch something.
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Not that that's ASP.NET's fault; I've seen those same people write complex apps in Access and Lotus-Notes-script, and the legacy they've left behind is far worse. At least ASP.NET is broken down into separate text files.
I'm several months into my first official ASP.NET project (I had to finish up a couple others after the third-party developers dropped the ball) - I used SQL stored procedures from the start, but had to refactor more than one chunk of front-end logic into a class after discovering that yes, it did need to be used more than once after all.
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Thankyou. That's one of the funniest things I've read here.
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LOL!!!!
Unless you're serious of course ... in which case I'll need to know what company you manage so I can avoid ever thinking about working there ;-)
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That was in response to "TopCoder" banning ASP.NET Codebehind and ViewState BTW ... didn't do the quote right.
Captcha: Sagaciter ... in college I was an avid Sagaciter.
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TRWTF: That's not the Matterhorn.
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All things considered, renaming things is the least obnoxious thing people do with their limited understanding of psychological conditioning. There's always some HR asshat out there with a minor in psychology who thinks that making everyone wear suits to work will make them do a better job. Let me be clear for those of you who've never experienced this: you're not wearing the suit to make you more appealing to a client, you're wearing it so you won't spend your day playing Solitaire. That's not the kind of thing someone in a suit would do. You know, because if you look professional you'll act professional.
Of course, by that logic, the company would save a fortune by making their employees dress like they're homeless and paying them in crushed aluminum cans.
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SPOILER ALERT!!!!
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A few things seem odd about this story:
As others have said, the survey isn't anonymous if they need to check everyone's name.
I assume that people got free software at home via Microsoft's Home Use Program. There's no survey required for this - people just need to enter a code into the Microsoft website and pay for P&P.
Technically, Office 2007 was available in 2006, but only at the very end of the year. (It was launched at the same time as Vista and Exchange 2007.) So, a more plausible configuration would be Windows XP, Office 2003, and Exchange 2003.
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Database 1: Names of all who have completed survey Database 2: Survey data No links between databases
I have no idea how far they actually took this but it would be fairly easy to have two separate forms, one that recorded name and address and one that recorded survey data.
Seal name data in envelope and include that envelope and survey data in submission.
Person 1 reviews submissions and records survey data. When they validate a survey they put the, still sealed, name data into another pile of valid submissions.
Person 2 takes this valid pile and records all the personal information for tracking who actually received a copy of office.
Person 1 knows survey data but not who they match up with. Person 2 knows who submitted data but not what their survey answers were.
Again, no idea if they cared enough to do this or just said "yea we won't yell at you if you say we suck." But asking personal data doesn't preclude something from being anonymous.
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Ahh, a hammer! With this I could make a tool to drive nails into wood...
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So I guess whoever decided for Office 2007 was already counting on it being launched way before the request approval.
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One number is the internal version, one number the external. What part of that don't you understand?
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...and he fell off the cliff. That's how contestants lost that game.
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In a web app for Access there's only one user--the IIS Machine.
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What's like back in th dark ages? Seperation of code from presentation.. OMG say it ain't so!
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Oh, that's right, back in the dark ages people thought only one organization was allowed to write software, and even though it costs about a penny to make another CD, software can't be any good unless you pay several hundred dollars for it.
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(Welcome back TC. ;)
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this is not a WTF on an embedded system without a file system
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Good Sir,
The pragmatic "production-ready" decision result points but to an incredible Proof, and/or an awesome Concept!
TRWTF might be not writing proofs of concepts elegantly enough to be instantly "production-ready".*
Cheers,
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*(It might be, but it's not)
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ummm 6.1.7600? or 6 + 1 = 7.7600???
Who knows?
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"Now"?
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Whose Idea was it to market NT 5 as Windows 2000?
Whose Idea was it to market Windows NT 5.1 as Windows XP?
Um, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Marketing?
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You're forgetting the cost of that pretty box.
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A connection is open once to retrieve the page and once to save the results. This will most likely take under a second for each. While the site probably can't handle 2000 users simultaneously, it can probably easily process 2000 users in a 10 minute period.
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Internal version: The actual version of the software. External version: A random value that some marketing droid pulled out his ass to make the software sound more attractive - for example, by making it appear to be newer than it really is.
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Try reminding people sometimes they may need some bit of code in the aspx (it's like GOTO, used responsibly it's a boon, but you have to be able to WELL DEFINE the reason why your use case is responsible. Odds are, you're wrong if you want to use it, try again.) and you can see the brains asplode (see my previous parenthetical comment). They have become so ingrained lately that aspx is code free, markup only... I'm just glad when users don't put all their code in one page, I like my separation of code and design.
Why did I start posting this crap again? </ramble><leave>
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For my next project, I plan to redesign ASP.NET to include this way to never write code. All programs will just spring to life from some unknown* source.
**Also, nice troll, but I think his ears need a little more fuzz, and his shirt is too neatly pressed. Rip it a bit, have him sleep in it on the ground... that might help.
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Plus the cost of the programmers who supplied something to put on that $.01 CD. Or do people work full-time for free on your planet?
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TopCod3r, putting the F in WTF.
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Those who think software development means a team of project managers, requirements analysts, graphic designers, compliance gatekeepers, meeting schedulers, note takers, status updaters, facilitators, communicators, presentation sizzlers, signoff refusers, teambuilding exercisers, diversity enforcers, committee members, supervisors, managers, more managers, and oh yes a developer -- need to get paid to tolerate this crap.
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On the other hand, how far backwards do you have to go from "Windows 2000" all the way back to "Windows 7"?
(And, no, the answer isn't "1993".)
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Breathe in. Breathe out. Say after me: "I'm sorry, but you're totally wrong. How's the Missus?"
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"While he had some experience in VBScript, he knew little about ASP programming." The whole thing goes downhill (via Access) from there.
But, we've all been there. My equivalent of "Matterhorn" was "Sierra." (Non-obfuscated.)
What is it with these management loons that they're always talking about mountain peaks and locker-rooms and (occasionally) Marine boot-camps and rather nasty photographs of donkeys having sex with women?
What's wrong with just talking about software?
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I thought they wouldn't deploy the app as it embarassingly demonstrates what could be achieved with the existing technology.
Captcha=augue = augmented (better) arguing?