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Hard Drive Died, BOO. Monday, May 29, 2006 I back up at the beginning of every month to my external hard drive. Today is the 29th and I had 2 more days until my next backup. Unfortunately, I lost everything that happened over this month. I really should start using Subversion to backup my local files onto a separate hard drive. It's Memorial Day, good thing Best Buy is open. 0 comments 
Disappointment X 3. Friday, May 26, 2006 Disappointment TIMES THREE. I'm not going to ruin the movie for you. I'm not going to tell you what happens and what doesn't happen. I'll just tell you X3 was such a disappointment. If anyone has or knows where I can get the original X-Men comics/cartoons, please send them my way. Those were the good times. *Work is going great now! All I had to do was sit down and explain everything I did to ensure that knowledge transfer was a success. I had to prove that I did my job, not by the results, but by being able to list all classes/files I changed as well as what I changed. (JUST A THOUGHT: I guess I'm the new guy. I have to prove myself. Not a problem and fair enough.) 1 comments
My Contribution to BBMP, Boo. Monday, May 22, 2006 //Big Ball of Mud Pattern Deadlines are more important than good & solid code. I found myself between a rock and a hard place. I guess to keep your job, you just have to do what works as opposed to doing it right. It's sad, but you just have to do what the business wants, even if you know it's not what's best for them. private void setMenuHeadHTML(UserProfile userProfile) { ... bigMoStringBuffer = bigMoStringBuffer.append( DisplayElementHome.getNEW_LINE() + "<script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://[server-port]/[blah1]/com/[blah2]/treasury/client/javascript/sniffer.js\">" ) ; ... } private void setMenuHeadHTMLForASP(UserProfile userProfile) { ... } 0 comments
TheDailyWTF: My Turn. Friday, May 19, 2006 Lotus Notes is awesome! Take a look at it's features:  I was adding a button to the email and I wanted to edit it. I right click it and I see nothing to edit it, just the normal options you have for any object/text in emails. So I ask around...you have to right click it at the EDGE of the button, away from the text in the button to enable the right options to edit it.  I was creating a meeting and I wanted to set an alarm 30 minutes before the actual event... Oh yeah, and Lotus Notes doesn't have flags...BOO. 0 comments
Diamond in the Rough. Tuesday, May 09, 2006 The Rough, first: -Separating ownership of development boxes from the developers and the "infrastructure*" gives me headaches. -Misspelling variables. "VERYIFY = true;" The Diamonds: Vikram: this is not good, im falling asleep Thomas: haah slap yourself. Thomas: then say "bitch wake the fuck UUUUUUUUUUP!" Vikram: LOL, do i look like Sohel? *infrastructure: The group that owns the server which is in London and is 6 hours ahead of us. The group who maintains the application passwords, configuration and setup. The group who we have until 11AM our time to contact if ANYTHING should be changed, updated or added. 0 comments
Web Programming Basics...? Monday, May 01, 2006 I want to make the assumption that these three broken rules below are supposed to be common sense. Is it fair to say that these rules are basic for any web developer? I ran into some of these on my migration project. Rule 1: Know the difference between absolute and relative paths. -URLs were absolute. Migrating to a new server didn't work because it pointed to the old server! Rule 2: Know Javascript. Don't use a feature just because "it works." -When clicking on the menu (top frame), the main screen (middle frame) was pushed to the side, literally. The left frame "pushed" the main screen to the right hand side with one pixel left showing. Rule 3: CSS is included by: <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">. -...not as an ASP include file! It was even called "sitestyles.css"; no ambiguity. More to come...hopefully not. 3 comments
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