Category Archives for coding

So long and thanks for all the fish!

I can never resist the opportunity to throw a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote out there…

I’m saying good-bye on behalf of my former company Cape Breton Web Design. It was a good run from 2009 to 2012. We created quite a few successful sites for local businesses around Sydney, Glace Bay and other parts of Cape Breton Island. It was a pleasure getting to know some of the local entrepreneurs and business owners and helping them launch or update a modern website.

As it goes all thing come to an end… So I will no longer be taking on any private web development work under that business name. I will, however, continue operating RWCorbett.ca if you need to contact me regarding any web design or development.

How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language

This is an oldie (2006) but funny and still relevant:

How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language

a few of my faves:

JAVA
After importing java.awt.right.foot.* and java.awt.gun.right.hand.*, and writing the classes and methods of those classes needed, you’ve forgotten what the hell you’re doing

(personally I prefer Swing…)

C#
Copy how Java shot itself in the foot. Explain how you did it better.

 

C#
You can create and shoot a gun in C#, but you can’t shoot your foot in managed code. You didn’t know that?

 

Javascript
You’ve perfected a robust, rich user experience for shooting yourself in the foot. You then find that bullets are disabled on your gun.

(what… no feature sniffing?)