What code did you write today?

[Wafer]

Mmm, pie

 

[mjr]

None...but I did populate some PowerPoint slides with market research data on male urinary incontinence pads...pays the bills eh!

Now that's just taking the pee!

Legacy code dating back to the 90s? I've got to say, I love TDD. That little PHP project I've been working on: 4200 lines of code, 8800 lines of test code. So, yeah, 2/3 of the code is not in production, and I could have got it into the state I wanted in about 1/2 the time. But I can make just about any change with fear in the future.

"with fear"? To be fair, that's my opinion of much PHP code but today I'm writing some of that, some perl, hopefully some python and replying to some specifications... just a typical day in this co-op...

 

[midlife]

My hair is shorter these days

Yes, it's still around - we even have quite a modern compiler now - but parts of our system is over 20 years old. Our back office programs run in "dumb terminals" like this..

View attachment 119465

None of this fancy Windows malarky!

Autoexec.bat

Shaun

 

[jonny jeez]

10 PRINT "Markymark is awesome"
20 if inkeystring="esc" beep 10
30 goto 10

There. I've improved it to stop interference from the user.

So thats the code I wrote today.

 

[Markymark]

There. I've improved it to stop interference from the user.

So thats the code I wrote today.

10 PRINT "Markymark is awesome"
20 if inkeystring="esc" beep 10
30 Email 'mark@mark.com' creditcarddetails.txt
40 goto 10

I added a Trojan virus.

 

[jonny jeez]

10 PRINT "Markymark is awesome"
20 if inkeystring="esc" beep 10
30 Email 'mark@mark.com' creditcarddetails.txt
40 goto 10

I added a Trojan virus.

Its great seeing our 30 year old programming skills.going all "open source"

We are so down with the kids!

 

[marknotgeorge]

Dooooooooooooooowwwwweeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyiolyi

No bongs? you must be stuck on 14.4k, you peasant.

 

[jefmcg]

No bongs? you must be stuck on 14.4k, you peasant.

Um, with the code he is writing, I'd assume his modem has a switch to go between 1200/90 and 300/300.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Um, with the code he is writing, I'd assume his modem has a switch to go between 1200/90 and 300/300.

I don't remember being able to buy a modem in WH Smiths in 1983.

 

[jefmcg]

I don't remember being able to buy a modem in WH Smiths in 1983.

<whoosh>that was the sound of that joke going over my head.

You are going to have to explain it, I'm afraid (I didn't move to UK until '99)

 

[marknotgeorge]

<whoosh>that was the sound of that joke going over my head.

You are going to have to explain it, I'm afraid (I didn't move to UK until '99)

WH Smiths was one of the shops that sold home computers back in the 80s. @Markymark 's program was just the sort of thing some spotty oik would type into one of the display machines.

 

[subaqua]

WH Smiths was one of the shops that sold home computers back in the 80s. @Markymark 's program was just the sort of thing some spotty oik would type into one of the display machines.

ASDA also had an Acorn and a BBC Micro and we used to write similar but get the screen to fill up with "ASDA staff are nobbers" or words to that effect anyway.

 

[jefmcg]

WH Smiths was one of the shops that sold home computers back in the 80s. @Markymark 's program was just the sort of thing some spotty oik would type into one of the display machines.

Well, if they did, it would have been just the modem I was suggesting.

This is the one I had. Technically, it wasn't mine, a boy who had a crush on me insisted I borrow his computer and modem. Advantages of being a nerd girl

(points deducted from me forgetting it was 1200/75 not 90!)

 

[gavgav]

Standard SQL for me today to pull some data out of our contract monitoring tables and link to reference tables to make it readable data

 

[Sharky]

Halted CZ