• Rabiator (unregistered) in reply to Bobbo
    Bobbo:
    I have a serious case of Tool Blame, but it's not about coding specifically. It's about a tool that I like to call 'Visual SourceUnsafe', or 'Visual Shoot-Yourself-In-The-Foot'.

    It's like a hammer that requires you to hit your thumb, each time you use it.

    I think the user interface of "Visual SourceUnsafe" is not so bad.

    But the fact that it sometimes mangles the source in the database is. I've seen it myself and a colleague of mine has observed it elsewhere. So "SourceUnsafe" describes this particular tool quite well.

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to XV
    We now have a set of three values for instances of Bool: Bool.TRUE, Bool.FALSE, and null.
    As has been pointed out numerous times, there are perfectly good reasons to have tri-state logic.
  • IceWolf (unregistered) in reply to moe

    Oh my... VB...

    I work for an unnamed Eletricity company... and their premier, 24 x 7, must work, must be available application is written in VB... by an electrical linesman... the WTFs are never ending..

  • CouchStyle (unregistered) in reply to Rabiator
    Rabiator:
    Bobbo:
    I have a serious case of Tool Blame, but it's not about coding specifically. It's about a tool that I like to call 'Visual SourceUnsafe', or 'Visual Shoot-Yourself-In-The-Foot'. 
    It's like a hammer that requires you to hit your thumb, each time you use it.</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

    I think the user interface of "Visual SourceUnsafe" is not so bad.

    But the fact that it sometimes mangles the source in the database is. I've seen it myself and a colleague of mine has observed it elsewhere. So "SourceUnsafe" describes this particular tool quite well.

    I've always preferred the moniker "SourceDanger" when referring to SourceSafe.

    At a previous job, I made sure to use it so much in my push to move to Subversion that it became commonplace to refer to it as SourceDanger, even amongst the PHB's who really had no clue what they were talking about...

    captcha: alarm (Danger danger SourceDanger!)

  • Charles Frank (unregistered)

    You're kidding, right? This stupid kid didn't know how to do Dynamic Enums? Was he not aware of some pretty basic OO principals and XML (he got the DB part partially right).

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