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Re: Strongly typed direct routing link generation in ASP.NET Web API with Drum

jokeyxero — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:44:13 -0000

Brilliant! Thank you and Pedro for this! With Microsoft's heavy focus on enabling "RESTful APIs" you'd think they would have a better built-in solution for creating links. This will help a lot until they figure it out. Maybe we should add a suggestion for moving this approach/code into the default stack.

Re: The most disappointing video games of all-time, according to Redditors

jokeyxero — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:25:03 -0000

"Disappointing", by definition, means the game had to be hyped... It failed to meet expectations, even if the overall quality was still good. You sell a game as a 3 and it's a 5, then it's a great unexpected thing. You sell a game as a 10 and its a 5 then its a disappointment.

Re: Engage with the livestream

jokeyxero — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:34:09 -0000

But is that the demographic that actually talks to their reps and/or votes?

Re: How to Avoid a House of Falling Code

jokeyxero — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:35:59 -0000

It's your job to tell them that time is not optional. Just like the time you spend testing, thinking, reading, building, and deploying. It's just a part of it. If they want maintainable software, that's part of the cost to build it.

Re: How to Avoid a House of Falling Code

jokeyxero — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:32:30 -0000

I'm assuming this is unintentionally ironic, because it was written in about 1968, repeatedly failed until about 2000, then was replaced with a version grounded closer to reality when a group of people at Xerox realized the fundamental differences between buildings and software. You can't get an accredited CS or SWEN degree without learning about specs and models. See: Model driven development, test driven design/development, behavior driven development, executable acceptance tests, domain driven design, general agile methodologies, flowcharts, napkin designs, psudeocode, Clean Code practices, emergent architecture, SOLID principles, YAGNI. The general idea of planning ahead works, but the analogy to a house is and has always been flawed due to the differences in the mediums. Blueprints tell you how to build things in physics. Code is drawn in logic. Humans have been failing to get logic consistent and correct since the beginning of communication. Definitions vary, grammar varies, variables are missed, interactions with other parts of the system are missed. Humans are just not good at it consistently. But that's why we abstract and plan and then break it into smaller and smaller chunks, or the other way depending on the problem space. The most successful method we know of to do this at the moment is test driven design/development, which is iterative design and spec writing taken down to the minutes scale. It makes logic generally only a problem in your test design, but the tests form a kind of physics for which to validate your program. The tests also act as human-readable spec for how every independent module should behave, from single methods up to entire systems. But you never start writing that first line of test code until you have a requirement to test, which requires thinking and modeling, and often communicating with others. Special forces teams are far better analogies to software teams than assembly lines, drafters, architects, or civil engineers will ever be. As are "craftsmen", that is, people who mix engineering, science, creativity, and the uncertain arts to produce useful things.

Re: Onion Architecture: part 4 – after four years

jokeyxero — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:14:05 -0000

This is a great starting point, thanks for putting it together. I am a little concerned with the Repository implementation automatically committing the Session though. I think that's great for a small CRUD-derived app, but doesn't mesh as well with larger projects, which you've stated is the intended use case for Onion Architecture. I'd like to see a reference implementation where the app needs to coordinate several repositories in order to solve some problem.

Re: Adjix has a breakthrough idea in URL shorteners (Scripting News)

jokeyxero — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:53:00 -0000

Hrm, nice start.

Re: The Danger of Web Apps; How a Bug in Gmail Locked up My Account

jokeyxero — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:42:13 -0000

If it is the server then it is out of your hands, just like with web mail, if the client you might be able to avoid it.

Re: The Danger of Web Apps; How a Bug in Gmail Locked up My Account

jokeyxero — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:11:57 -0000

I would think this same kind of thing could happen with desktop mail, except instead of being locked out (which is easily reconciled usually) a bug could stop it from functioning at all until a patch is released. I agree we need to be careful on cloud dependence but I'm not convinced this is a good argument for caution.

Re: Email Is Still The “Best” Way To Share

jokeyxero — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:25:42 -0000

Give them time, they will discover FriendFeed, Facebook, and MySpace.

Re: Nick McGlynn

jokeyxero — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:44:00 -0000

I still think the DC and SNES were the best controllers, with PS2 and XBox behind. N64 and Colecovision controllers were complete failures. Sega CD controller was annoying. While the Wii Mote is good in practice, the extra buttons are awkward (1, 2, +, -). All of the XBox controllers, while ergonomic need to drop the black/white buttons. Gamecube controller was odd. PS2 could actually do without two of the shoulder buttons and needs to soften the d-pad texture.

Re: Is This Stupid?: Google Is a Little Scary Today...

jokeyxero — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:59:20 -0000

h-i-larious

Re: It's begun already: the cheap b*stards come racing out of the woodwork

jokeyxero — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:02:32 -0000

I think they mean non-compiled ASP.NET websites, at least that's the only thing that makes sense. I agree with you, that salary is pathetic, they need to come back to reality.

Re: (steve isaacs)

jokeyxero — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:32:10 -0000

There would be no way that I would pay for that. RIP Nibbler

Re: The Price of my Dreams - $60 a Week

jokeyxero — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:36:39 -0000

Quiet elegant. I love it.

Re: New Words For A New World

jokeyxero — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:22:45 -0000

I like, though "Awkwardology" would be the study of awkwardness. Perhaps Awkwardability as a measure of how easily something makes it to avoid those awkward situations. Same for "KneeJerkology", maybe "KnewJerkability", though I laughed at the definition. Give your defn for "Scabilibilty" maybe it should be "Unscabilibilty". ;)

Re: (steve isaacs)

jokeyxero — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:13:57 -0000

lol hilarious!

Re: (steve isaacs) - "The Dark Knight" - Steve's Review

jokeyxero — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:37:13 -0000

Agreed on almost everything, except I was fine with the extra screen time for Gordan and Dent.

The "Batman voice" was seriously off, he made it sound like Batman had lung cancer. I kept waiting for hacking, coughing, and wheezing. I'm really tired of the super close up fight scenes though. I'd rather see what's really going on. The fights in Batman Begins (out of the suit anyway) were much better.

Glad there will be a new car in the next one though. It was time for new tech.

I love this new series due to the reality aspect of them. It just feels more realistic, more like it could happen. There's no comical Mr. Freeze or the like. So long as Robin stays out of them they should be pretty good.

Re: (steve isaacs) - Fall in Love with FriendFeed - Steve's Tips

jokeyxero — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:46:09 -0000

Perfect write-up

Re: Edythe

jokeyxero — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:36:23 -0000

The fact that it was found in a French Convent makes it priceless l

Re: Microsoft Arc Mouse comes straight out of sci-fi flick - Archives PCLaunches.com

jokeyxero — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:44:00 -0000

Seriously, I'd like to know more about it, namely size and number of buttons. Also wonder what the "fits inside the computer" line is about. If it's a 5 button scroll mouse that's full size but still good for travel I might just snag one.

Re: louisgray.com: Seeing The Web's Racist Underbelly Is Saddening and Shocking

jokeyxero — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:20:19 -0000

He's got a point. A black individual is only "African American" if s/he actually emigrated from Africa to America, otherwise the term is "black", this includds the American born children of "African Americans". I'm really annoyed at the US's abuse of the term. The same goes for Asian Americans, Native Americans, and any other super-PC term the media has spat out.

No offense to you Louis, language happens generally quicker than we can think about it.

Re: There Are Different Steps For Growing Blogs

jokeyxero — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:05:28 -0000

Very useful, thank you.

Re: (steve isaacs)

jokeyxero — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:37:56 -0000

Don't know, but it is incredibly hard to do without reversing the circling.

Re: Kevin Rose FriendFeed's Interest in Digg Capability

jokeyxero — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:44:12 -0000

We've been asking for that for a while now. See the FriendFeed Feedback room for it. http://friendfeed.com/rooms...