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If there's one thing that irritates me more than anything, its programmers who dont comment any of
their code. Some people think that making your code unreadable maintains your job security. I personally
think thats stupid. If I were a project manager and saw code like that, I'd make someone fix it, and not
pay them to do it. It is common place in development for several people to be working on the same thing over
time. One person may write the original code, but the chances of that person coming back to it to make changes
are rare, especially on huge projects. I believe it to be courteous for developers to write comments to not
only help others who come across the code, but also for yourself. Ive come across code that Ive written
six-eight months ago and went “What the hell was I trying to do here?” After I figure it out, I
write in a comment. Commenting seems to be the one concept most developers do not understand. Comments
are supposed to denote why something is being done. Ive seen comments that said, this adds two numbers when it
was obvious that two numbers were being added together. This is a waste of a comment. Now if you're
doing something thats complex to understand, then you should add a comment explaining whats going on.
Yeah, Im getting paid for it, but I dont see much of it at the moment, so its like Im not getting
paid.
Allow me to let you in on a little of what Ive been working on. There are tons of
numbers that have to be calculated. Its all historical data, so it involves basically starting from the
beginning of time (the earliest record in the database) to now. The issue is that it can become quite time
consuming in order to calculate these numbers, especially if they have to be calculated several times. So, not
only am I trying to understand the calculations, but Im also trying to invent a way to make this process as quick as
possible. Its frustrating to say the very least.
What spawned the idea for the childrens
book? Nice idea though. Let me know if I can be of any help.
Good to see Smakk is still going. I agree with Greg, something is better than
nothing. Let me know if I can be of assistance in the rebuild process.
60's would be nice. Hell, I'd settle for 50's. This weather is so damn
strange. Although I havent really seen it much lately. Been stuck in my office being the loyal code
bitch that I am.
Thats cool. If you get me all the details, I'll see if maybe GoDaddy wants to bargain on the
price. Should be able to get the same features. Although, if you're set with getting another host
elsewhere, thats cool too. My offer still stands on helping with the redesign. Just let me know how I
can help.
Is Microsoft being taken over by Google? All this
intelligence cant be coming from within Microsoft. Although, I do find it insanely hilarious that every once
in awhile I see on Slashdot where someone from Microsoft went to Google.
Holy crap. Im so glad I dont drive down there. Its no wonder people have so much road rage
down there.
Dont feel bad I forgot about it until I posted the update about being like Michael Bolton…..what a great
movie. WTF is PC Load Letter?
Yeah, its been too frickin warm this winter. Why cant we have another winter like last year,
where it snowed like crazy. I miss the days of yore when it snowed in the winter so bad that there was a level
3 emergency and we went walking on the creek when it was frozen over with three or four inches of ice and we would
throw rocks to break the ice, or try to kick ice off a tree branch and fall on our asses. (Bring back any memories
Greg?)
When the rebate came for my DSL modem, I almost threw it away because it looked like
junk mail from SBC. Good thing. I would have hated to throw away $50.
Thought of another of my favorite movies that I think many of us forgot to include…..Office Space.
Someone's got a case of the Mondays….which is me every Monday morning. Although, we dont have a
Lumburg in our company (Thank God).
This weather has been quite weird lately. Melissa and I drove to Brunswick earlier, and I had the
windows down. How sweet is that? Plus, all the car washes were packed. It probably wont last
though. By next weekend, it'll probably be cold, with 2 feet of snow on the ground. How sweet would
that be?
Internet rebates seem to be the way to go. I mean ideally you'd want to do
it that way because its more efficient than waiting for someone to sort through it in the mail. Hell, I could
write something that posts to a database then sends an email alert to John Q RebateMoneyPerson every time a rebate
is to be redeemed. Even better would be to post the rebate form, then post an alert that asks if you want to
print the check or not. If you opt not to print the check, then the alert stays there until you print the
check. As long as they remember to mail it. So much for waiting 8-10 weeks for your rebate check.
Be there in more like 8-10 days. How sweet would that be.
Somehow I feel like Michael Bolton from
Office Space all the sudden.
