October 15th, 2009 by Tastic
And this is especially true for a Microsoft resource script. I just spend quite a bit of time tracking down a problem opening the resource view on a project. It would just hang indefinitely when I tried to open the resources. As it ends up, a resource definition block hidden inside of a #ifdef block was missing its END statement.
I blame Visual Studio. Visual Studio should have handled this error more gracefully than to stop responding and forcing me to kill it. They could make the resource compiler itself handle the error and report it or simply thread out the compile process so it can be stopped when I run into this type of error. Moral of the story is that when this problem happens, check each BEGIN for an END. Yay.
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In other news, I’ve moved to Kansas City and found a job programming in C++ on Window and in Visual Studio. Expect future rants to be about that for a while.
Haws & Hmms
July 1st, 2008 by Tastic
Seriously? This stuff still exists? Today I got one of the old-timey chain letter emails. It had a sob story and a rigged moral choice at the end to “Do the Right Thing” and forward to all of your coworkers and friends. If you didn’t, you are clearly a cold-hearted son-of-a-bitch and I’m sure you’ll get your comeuppance. Well, yes. Yes, I am, and undoubtedly I will. The moral choice of forward like a good little sheep or delete like a cruel bastard was a clear choice to me, and my trash can gets a new entry.
I thought this stuff died in the 90s as I certainly yelled enough at anyone doing it then, but it appears I’m not done yelling yet. It might be the spread of good will or it might be a vicious trap to get a bunch of confirmed working email address to target spam at. Either way, I don’t care. This is something that has always annoyed me, and I won’t participate. You hear me out there? Do you?
Ok. I’m calm now. Anyways, been a while since I posted an update. The theme got a few improvements, namely PNGs with transparency. That’ll require IE 7 or greater to display properly… or any other vendor’s browser made in the last decade. A friend of mine pointed out that it’s not a big deal as most IE users already have upgraded and this aims to be a techie site. It does make the gradients flow better and the image size smaller, so I’m somewhat happy about that.
Popcorn & Sunshine