Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Great Moments in Idiocy
April Fool’s Day was last week. We had a pretty good April Fool’s Day post here, but I am not certain how many people got it. This got me thinking about some of the better office pranks I have seen in my long tenure here at SlickEdit. Actually, I do not think any of them [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Productivity by Dan H
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Finding Misery in Another Programmer’s Success
I was introduced to the word schadenfreude by an episode of the Simpsons, “When Flanders Failed“. It’s a german word that means “pleasure from misfortune”. In this episode, Homer finds happiness in watching Flanders’ Leftorium shop go out of business. The Wikipedia reference to it says that the opposite meaning of schadenfreude would be “happiness [...]
21 Comments » - Posted in Programming by Scott Hackett
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Coding tips: Generational Naming
All too often, you need to make a new version of a function that does something a little bit different than the original function. Perhaps it just takes a new argument or removes an unused one. Maybe it’s a wrapper around the original function that does some more cool stuff. Furthermore, for backwards compatibility, you [...]
