Rob Garrett - Blogs

July 2005 - Posts

• How many bad developers are there in the world?

  As I was reading today's " Daily WTF " I could not help but wonder about how many really bad developers are out there in the market place. The following snippet was submitted to D-WTF after being found in some production code: public boolean checkFalse(Boolean Read More... Posted Friday, July 29, 2005 10:06 AM by Rob Garrett | 6 Comments

• No, it's not Sushi

  I was reading a post on Boing Boing today about David LaPuma, a grad student, who was diagnosed with meningmioma - a brain tumor. David found out from doctors that he had his tumour after a complaint that he had lost is sense of smell about 10 months Read More... Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:18 AM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• ViewState Tracking in ASP.NET Controls

  Let's say you have the following snippet of code below. The code dynamically instantiates a new ASP.NET control, changes the title property and then adds the control to the control collection of a placeholder on the page - a typical approach to dynamically Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:50 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Big Container Ship

  Gizmodo posted a note about the OOCL Shenzhen - a huge container ship that carries electronics hardware from Hong Kong. The ship is only manned by 19 crew members because almost all control of the vessel is possible using a single Windows-based terminal. Read More... Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 4:44 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• Panorama

  I just created this really cool 360 panorama of the "Family Room" in my house. I shot various pictures using my Canon Powershot SD200 and a tripod. I then imported the pictures into The Panorama Factory v3.4 . The location in this image was shot as a Read More... Posted Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:10 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• CMM?

  "Documenting the documentation process", isn't that CMM ? Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:20 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Code Comments

  I have lost count of the number of times that I have been asked to work on a piece of software written by another developer, only to find out that the code had no comments. What typically follows is hours spent wading through lines and lines of complex Read More... Posted Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:06 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments