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When developers write documentation
One of the nice things about a modern IDE like Visual Studio is the help you get when coding. XML documentation, which shows up as a pop-up below the line of code you're writing helps you check you're using the right method.
Sometimes it tells you a little bit more than that...
Thunderbird has an interesting idea of what a PHP file is!
Just to prove that Windows isn't the only piece of software out there that is capable of amusing me, Thunderbird gave me a laugh today
Visual Studio IntelliCode is always quite as intelligent as it might be
Another excuse to have a laugh at the expense of some very clever Microsoft engineers!
Amazon don't HTML-encode their product descriptions
Just browsing some books on Amazon, and saw this lovely example of what happens when you forget to HTML-encode your text...
A successful error, eh?
Another amazing Microsoft error message
Has Google lost the plot, or is there something I've missed?
My son just noticed that if you go to google.com and enter "last day of march 2022", then you are given an, erm, interesting result!
On a PC far far away...
I just fired up a virtual PC that I hadn't used for some time, opened File Explorer, and saw this...
Yet another great message from Microsoft
I have previously blogged about some of the great error messages I've seen come out of Microsoft.
Here is another one.
Possibly the world's ugliest CSS-only background
Spurred on by my son's amazingly ugly CSS-only background, I decided to go one better and animate it.
Along the way, I rediscovered some of what made the early days of the web the wild, whacky and downright ugly place it was!
Get your sunglasses out before reading this blog post!
Windows 10, built to last
Whilst I'm getting increasingly frustrated with Windows 10, the number of errors that seem to crop up, and the number of basic features that seem to stop working for no good reason, it has produced more than its fair share of amusements.
Today's suggests that Microsoft have an amazing level of confidence in the staying power of Windows 10.
Erm, how urgent is it?
I just lurve clients sometimes!
Our main client has the (probably not uncommon) habit of labelling every ticket as urgent. The problem with this is that when something really urgent comes along, they have no way of making it stand out above the other urgent jobs. This predictably led to the creation of a "Very urgent" rating.
Today they outdid themselves...
This led to a lively debate as to what would come next. How about "-1. Life threatening"?
MailTrap has achieved precognition
We use the rather excellent mailTrap for testing code that sends emails. Whilst this site is very well done, I didn't realise quite how clever the developers were until I noticed this...
Super method name - surely they didn't really mean that did they?
Whilst editing a WPF view, the XAML designer claimed it couldn't display a child user control due to a null reference exception. Looking at the stack trace, I noticed a wonderfully named method...
Programmers
Just saw this comment on Stack Overflow, and thought it too good not to repost...
A programmer's wife sends him to the supermarket. She tells him, "Buy a loaf of bread, and if you see some eggs, grab a dozen."
The programmer later returns with a dozen loaves of bread under his arm
The real reasons for Enterprise Design(TM)
Forget all you ever learnt about enterprise design, I'll reveal the truth, and it's not pleasant (but quite funny!)
More great error messages
Following on from my previous posts with great error messages, here are some more
Another great error message!
Having blogged recently about some great error messages, I came across another one! Microsoft much employ people to craft these, they just couldn't be there by accident. I reckon they are put there to amuse developers, and distract them from the fact that the software is misbehaving!
Anyway, I was using the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard, and it threw up the following error message:
Error 0xc004706b: Data Flow Task 3: "Destination 14 - EntityHistory" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN"
I just love that last bit!
My computer lies to me
Bored of the usual methods of inflicting torture upon myself, I thought I would upgrade SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2014 (stop laughing at the back!), because, erm, well it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Read more to hear the whole sorry story
Two cute programmer jokes
Two programming-related jokes that amused me
Bjarne Stroustrup on computers and telephones
" I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone ."
Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup
My computer just laughed at me
Of course, we professional programmers never make mistakes, ahem. That’s why we never need to use debuggers, ahem.
Well suspend belief for a moment, and assume that I had a bug in the code I was developing. You know the feeling, you stare at it, you write unit tests, you stare at it some more, and still can’t work out why on earth Visual Studio is claiming that there is an error in your code, when it’s so obvious that there isn’t. You even get to the point of talking to your computer, pointing out the error of its ways...
Recognition for my contributions to the community... or not!
I was underwhelmed at being awarded two separate recognitions for my contribution to the community.
Read on and be as underwhelmed as I was!
They didn't really mean that did they?
Sadly, whilst building a solution yesterday, my machine started behaving in a very weird manner, with applications not responding, the taskbar disappearing and so on, followed by the dreaded blue screen of death. When I checked the event log after pulling the plug out (I hate doing that!) and rebooting, I found lots of errors, which led me to a Microsoft Connect article (now sadly removed) where someone was reporting a very similar problem.
To my amazement, the very last comment by a Microsoft employee in response to this bus report was “This is known issue, this bug was resolved by mistake, we are already addressing this issue.â€
Surely they didn’t mean that did they? Someone tell me I read that wrong!