carfield.com.hk

career.txt

2008-07-09T16:31:30Z

http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/talent.asp

bureaucrat.txt

2008-03-26T18:06:32Z

This is a very insightful comparison about various procedure at enterprise with no procedure with OSS, most of the time we hope that adding various policy and procedure to help reduce problem. Most likely, a nice team with same goal can deliver more, and usually, policy and bureaucrat harm on team building - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001082.html

Beautiful Code in the Real World.txt

2008-03-17T17:25:25Z

Comment 1:

“I have read a few chapters of Beautiful Code. It’s a great book, but in my job I have to maintain a steaming pile of legacy code. I don’t have many opportunities to think about beauty because I barely have time to keep the existing code functional. The best I can do it to keep crappy code from getting worse.”

Comment 2:

“Very interesting book. I wish I had an opportunity to think about cool algorithms for tough problems, but I am working on a boring enterprise application. I read stuff from a database, do something trivial to it and then I generate some reports. There aren’t that many opportunity for clever algorithms and beautiful solutions in business logic.”

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=211959

Inproper.txt

2008-02-13T17:47:42Z

Exception as termination function - http://thedailywtf.com/forums/3/97782/ShowThread.aspx#97782

Use clipboard for application communication - http://forums.worsethanfailure.com/forums/thread/134736.aspx

"Every time you cut and paste code, god kills a kitten" -Mark
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com[..]iscussTopicParent=14469&ixDiscussGroup=3

Few Java coding problems - http://jroller.com/page/ff?entry=code_of_horror

Amazing, use CDROM ejection to simulate restart robot - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx

JSR666 , http://fishbowl.pastiche.org[..]8/02/13/jsr666_extension_exception_types

misc.txt

2008-01-12T08:28:39Z

The Brillant Paula Strikes Back - http://thedailywtf.com/forums/63858/ShowPost.aspx

The reason that version no. at Help/About is bad - http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/79265.aspx

The Digital Donkey, http://virtudyne.com/ , some say it is http://www.simdesk.com

In fact we don't need to do something before making sell - http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/102207.aspx

Most Ridiculous Outsourcing Story of the Year - [..]iscussTopicParent=15297&ixDiscussGroup=3

Don't try to cheat programmer :-) - http://www.javaworld.com.tw/jute/post/view?bid=14&id=204666

Development life is suck!!! Really??? - http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.581979

Well commented code.txt

2008-01-03T07:45:51Z

Well commented bullshit
http://thedailywtf.com/forums/65573/ShowPost.aspx
http://thedailywtf.com/forums/64833/ShowPost.aspx

Commented but wrong
http://thedailywtf.com/forums/65091/ShowPost.aspx

About Apache Xalan parser
http://thedailywtf.com/forums/81232/ShowThread.aspx#81232

Fxxx in comments - http://codeulate.com/?p=7

business.txt

2007-11-12T07:03:47Z

Don't let validations kill your business - http://www.jroller.com/bhavin/entry/don_t_let_validations_kill

Funny blame from american of outsourcing - http://talk.ocregister.com/showthread.php?t=28235

saving at enterprise - http://parlezuml.com/blog/?postid=511

How to make front door look good: Don't allow employee pass it... - http://jakescruggs.blogspot.com[..]t.com/2007/10/employee-appreciation.html

mistake.txt

2007-09-29T07:16:10Z

Hard to know why there are so many error... http://thedailywtf.com/forums/68792/ShowPost.aspx

Hardcode path - http://thedailywtf.com/forums/32345/ShowPost.aspx

Redefine NULL - http://www.thedailywtf.com/forums/71684/ShowPost.aspx

Accident Recurrsive - http://thedailywtf.com/forums/71904/ShowPost.aspx

Excel display bug cause by float - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html

methodology.txt

2007-09-06T06:21:33Z

The methodology of having bad software - http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/asshole-driven-development/

Our code have unit tests so our code is solid !! - http://forums.worsethanfailure.com/forums/thread/129673.aspx

feasibility.txt

2007-08-02T15:58:39Z

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org[..]7/17/understanding_engineers_feasibility

management.txt

2007-08-01T17:22:10Z

How to prevent user request adding feature?? Delay the release... http://raminasser.com[..]ist-adding-new-features-to-your-project/

Q & A from poor arhitect - http://softarc.blogspot.com[..]7/06/how-to-spot-dreaded-non-coding.html

UI.txt

2007-07-10T10:14:08Z

Fun UI and error message: http://thedailywtf.com/forums/59766/ShowPost.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/79538.aspx

How to drive user away? A big login box... http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2007/02/27/irony_of_the_day or too many features in single screen - http://worsethanfailure.com[..]cles/Classic_WTF_-_Enter_the_Matrix.aspx

UI - http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.515082

School.txt

2007-07-04T16:25:28Z

Use VB for data structure course~ http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/82911.aspx

Hack the security course's forum! http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/83154.aspx

Things learnt in or not in college - http://www.hanselman.com[..]arnedAboutSoftwareWHILENOTInCollege.aspx

How to kill star programmer.txt

2007-06-29T02:49:11Z

http://jroller.com/page/rc?entry=10_ways_to_kill_your

GPS.txt

2007-05-04T07:16:18Z

This should go along with the bomb-targeting device used in Afghanistan. The solder on the ground set the GPS coordinates for the bomb drop. Then he noticed the battery was low. So he swapped out the battery, then pressed the 'Fire' button.

Unfortunately, the device reset itself when he swapped the battery. It reset itself to its current position, *not* the offset position he had entered.

The soldier and 4 others died in the bomb drop.
True story -- see Software Development, November 2004.

[..]iscussTopicParent=27244&ixDiscussGroup=4

development flow.txt

2007-05-04T07:14:03Z

> In the software world, picking icons and taking screen
> shots are not critical path tasks compared to writing
> the save data to file routines.

One shop I'm acquainted with, the sequence is
- Programmer designs an awesome GUI because he
felt like it
- Customer passing through sees it and says
"That's cool! How soon can I have it?"
- Management answers "Six months"
- Programmers code furiously (no time for design!)
- Seven months later, code review meeting is called
for thousands of lines of code. Six or more people
say, "I haven't had time to look at it. You
tested it, right?"
- Ship it.
- Start debugging.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.484158