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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: ...know people who release code without checking it at all? 
There are times where I have had to do this because the checked in code is part of the build process.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Pretty much all the time. It's the joys of PHP on a low volume website.
If I break something, I've pretty much got 30 mins before anyone notices.
For other languages, it the usual 'it works for me' scenario.
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Release code me? NEVER! I have had team members who do this all the time. There Sh!t don't stink ya know. Never admits fault etc....
Check in code that doesn't compile. This I do alllllll the time. I leave a compile error where I was last working all the time. This helps me pick up where I left off in the code. Check in and commit code for even a dev rollout though. Nope don't do that.
But then again perhaps I work differently than others. (who knew  )))
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: know people who release code without checking it at all?
To stinking many of them. Not only not checking it, but leaving it broken for the weekend.
I've had people do that when just checking in code to the repo, and that's bad enough, but I've also seen people releasing code to production without checking, and then not responding to phone calls all weekend.
Bloody torture time.
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I'm only 1 and I don't. How many people answer "How many of you..." questions without providing a quantity?
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Funny you should ask this.
Recently (a friend) did a quick test and publish. It failed in production.
Probably the first time in 8 years!
further research, (the friend) missed the correct path for testing.
Tweaked the fix, and was SO CONFIDENT it would work, they were ready to publish it. OMG!
A quick break and then a decision to test it. Revealed another bug.
RESET. Rescheduled. Fixed. Tested. Published. All was good.
Then a funny thing happened. The friend (who is me) got really sick and was out of it for 2 days.
(I literally stayed in bed and recovered)
But I realized I was really really overworked, and had started making some questionable decisions as I got ill. I did not have my normal energy in approaching things.
I am coming clean on this, as I did with my team, because it is important to pay attention to our health, and our schedules. I was NOT taking the time off that I DEMAND my team take off (we don't work weekends, or long long hours. At least not regularly. Maybe once a year!)
We are bags of chemistry. When that gets out of whack, we are much more susceptible to stupid mistakes.
The moral: Don't just kill the person who made a mistake. Focus on a culture to find the why, and HELP MAKE SURE it does not happen again!!! Being rushed, and not being 100% A terrible combination!
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I just installed DropBox on Linux using the Ubuntu Software Center. It shows as installed. No "Launch" button so, OK, I go click the "Start" button and search for DropBox. No results. This "Start" does not show all programs so the only way to get to something is to search or to have it pinned to the side.
Luckily the setup was not actually done and sitting behind a window. Not sure how I'll get to the DropBox app in the future.
Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm convinced - Linux employs a technique similar to the one Australia has used with its wildlife for years.
Packages often have deliberately brief installation instructions, we talk-up how nasty our critters are.
It tends to raise the bar for entry to a degree that suits all current inhabitants.
You've got google now, whatcha whining for? You shouldv'e tried with all that kind of stuff back when the best search engine was AltaVista.. and IE4 ruled the roost. 
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Are you suggesting that Linux is the Drop Bear of operating systems?
Because I thought that title went to Vista.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Because I thought that title went to Vista.
Are you sure? If Win7 would not exist, I would believe that Mickeysoft has specialized on DropSomethings.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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enhzflep wrote: You've got google now, whatcha whining for?
So, the first response to a Linux rant essentially amounts to "RTFM, n00b!!!1!".
Not much ever changes, I guess...
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AltaVista has been replaced? Where have I been?
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You can try installing it using the terminal, Dropbox is available in the official repo 
i dont trust the software center, sometimes they don't do what was advertise.
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Could you repeat that in English, please?
Google translate couldn't handle it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agree - I dont trust the Ubuntu software centre either. It uses very old versions of software and isnt very reliable as the OP says in completing the installation. Definitely avoid if you can. 
Fortunately the command line is quite helpful in most instances and will tell you how to install software, with the added benefit it is a much faster process.
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Zterh wrote: i dont trust the software center
It was a .deb download from dropbox.com. I chose to open in Software Center because double-clicking did nothing. At least in Windows, when you double-click an installer, it installs. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it.
That was the exact final straw that made me drop my last (of many) excursion into ubuntu.
They call it progress. I call it "hiding stuff".
Why is it hard for OS designers to understand that we just want to use our programs and files?
Media libraries? Groups? Fancy-schmanzy containers that suck in every picture on the machine (including all the icons, snapshots, borders, and other cr@p used by programs)?
No thanks. Just give me a list of the programs installed, so that I can open them when I need them, and let me see my disc, so that I can put files there and retrieve them from there.
You don't make things simpler by obfuscating simplicity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Did you argue with it a lot then? 
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I'm not you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I like Fedora quite a bit, and find that it works quite well, especially with the LXDE desktop (very lightweight).
Ubuntu... Not a chance. That crap is worse than Vista, IMO.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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RyanDev wrote: Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it.
Yup. Fairly common state of affairs as far as I've seen. Install an app, where's the icon? Oh, there's an .sh file I have to use to launch it buried somewhere in the installation directory. Oh, but it's not executable. Need to tell Ubuntu to treat it as an executable. Now how to put a shortcut on the desktop. Oh, that is another 30 minutes wasted googling SO answers until the right set of non-intuitive steps is described. 
Marc
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This started off as a rant on here but then I realized it was getting long and decided to throw it onto my blog. I've somewhat recently been forced (okay, persuaded) to do some iOS and Android development and it really put the state of developer tools into perspective for me. I was shielded in my little Microsoft bubble of really damn good developer tools and now that the bubble has burst and the red pill has been swallowed, I figured a thank you was in order:
[Code Index] Thank You Microsoft[^]
I was planning to make a transition into more and more mobile stuff but I can't...I've been spoiled with XAML and C#, even considering faults and all, and I just can't go back now. So I'm going to keep focusing more on server-based work, dev tooling and stuff that won't need native mobile apps.
Anyone else here try to make an honest effort to go from the Microsoft ecosystem into Android/iOS development and fail miserably? Well not fail, but ended up hating it?
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Mike Marynowski wrote: Anyone else here try to make an honest effort to go from the Microsoft ecosystem into Android/iOS development and fail miserably? Well not fail, but ended up hating it?
While I can see your point... surely you jest? I couldn't stand editing XAML. The editor was slooooooooooooooow. Did I mention slow?
Jeremy Falcon
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It *was* slow, but it has been improved significantly in each release of Visual Studio. XAML is also expressive enough that I rarely use the editor directly anyway - I usually have it in split screen view and I type the XAML manually. Faster, more accurate, less code bloat. I'm a huge advocate of beautiful hand-written XAML.
Even when the editor was slower, I still never found it to be so bad that it become unusable. Keeping things well organized and split into smaller files helped a lot. There was a period of time before I was particularly good with XAML and relied on the editor more than I do now that I remember it being sluggish but I'll take sluggish over hand coding a UI with actual code or using Interface Builder any day.
The kinds of UIs that you can easily build with XAML is nothing short of amazing.
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Mike Marynowski wrote: It *was* slow, but it has been improved significantly in each release of Visual Studio. XAML is also expressive enough that I rarely use the editor directly anyway - I usually have it in split screen view and I type the XAML manually. Faster, more accurate, less code bloat. I'm a huge advocate of beautiful hand-written XAML.
I always disabled the visual editor and the XAML code editor was still slow as dirt. I think you'll find most professionals do that, so it's just assumed.
Mike Marynowski wrote: Even when the editor was slower, I still never found it to be so bad that it become unusable.
I have, on a large medical project. This was back in VS 2012 mind you, but still.
Mike Marynowski wrote: The kinds of UIs that you can easily build with XAML is nothing short of amazing.
Well, I totally agree, but have you used any other UI technologies besides XAML? MS isn't exactly known for originality. There are a ton of things you can do in other platforms. It's simply bringing a web-style layout engine to the desktop is all.
Jeremy Falcon
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