A couple of months back I had some trouble with my WLAN router. Its little yellow traffic light was blinking continuously, and the router periodically stopped responding to wireless connection attempts from my computers. After some digging I quickly found out that my ISP was routing a lot of bad, crappy and seemingly wrong data to my router. Anyway, even with all this bad data, I couldn’t see why my router should stop responding… OK, it was ’a lot’ of bad inbound data - at some point it was about 2 gigabytes an hour.

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There are times when you want your class to expose some kind of collection. Maybe you got a Server class and want to world to access it connections, or you got a Family class and want to provide access to the collection of family members. Sometimes that is easy - just to return a reference to the collection from a function or property. Other times it’s not that easy.
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…and this time it was for real.

Today, while standing outside of my office with some colleagues, I was attacked by a blind old lady. Twice she hit me with her cane, before slowly passing on by. I’m in shock!

I spend a great deal of my time looking at maps - it’s a bad habbit, almost like a compulsive disorder, but I enjoy, for no reason, pinpointing known and unknown locations. When I’m in the compulsive/joyable mode I usually use the good old book version. Not e-book, just book.

Then there are other times when I use the e-book version - typically Norwegian map providers and sometimes Google/Yahoo! Maps. Those are times when I need to find information about a location and typically how to get there.

One day I was looking for an island off the coast of Kristiansand, Norway, and I found this map with a rather strange feautre.

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…and tomorrow I’m going fishing.

By the way, here is probably the most funny lure of them all.

Today, in the pursuit of a free version of SQL Prompt, I visited Red-Gate Software. 

I noticed their slogun “ingeniously simple tools”. SQL Prompt was of course not free (why would I even believe that?), so I did not find what I initially was looking for. Instead I spent a couple of minutes looking at the other tools they were offering. Tools for SQL refactoring, profiling, documentation, diff etc. In my opinion a quite useful lot of SQL utilities.

Then I decided to move over to their forum - and this was what I got:

So, maybe I’m wrong on this one, but “ingeniously simple” doesn’t have to mean it’s “good enough”.

I once worked together with this developer that seems to enjoy (or had a rather bad habbit of) turning every logic expression into its negative complement. That is, instead of properties (or fields) named Enabled or Visible, his properties would be named Disabled or Hidden. It made every expression look like:

If Not Disabled And Not Hidden Then       

    'enabled and visible       

End If

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Here’s a litt story of how things shouldn’t be (first posted at Codeguru).

I was once asked to fix this totally non-critical feature in a very critical application. The argument was “we really don’t need it, but since it’s documented you may as well make it work”.
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This one is just too good to go unnoticed.

http://redsolo.blogspot.com/2007/01/continued-inconsistencies-in-net.html