How To Write Unmaintainable Code

[Jibz]

I hadn't read this one before, but it is absolutely brilliant:

http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

[Josh]

I saw the title and immediately thought about mouser coming out of the woodworks and talking about his coding "style" ;-)

[Renegade]

That was very good. I skimmed a lot of it, but there are some real gems in there.

[mouser]

Great stuff. 

[capitalH]

Blocked at work - will read later.

Luckily I do not need instructions - it comes naturally to me

[Renegade]

Luckily I do not need instructions - it comes naturally to me

-capitalH (September 22, 2011, 07:11 AM)

Hahahahaha~!

Nice one!

[40hz]

You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming...

[iphigenie]

You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming...

-40hz (September 22, 2011, 09:45 AM)

Actually that style worked pretty well for web programming for the longest time, since http is a)linear and b)amnesiac. The industry is full of people like that who managed quite well on the server side programming.
It's harder in our days of ajax, html5, rich interfaces in javascript, flash and silverlight etc.

[Renegade]

You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming...

-40hz (September 22, 2011, 09:45 AM)

Actually that style worked pretty well for web programming for the longest time, since http is a)linear and b)amnesiac. The industry is full of people like that who managed quite well on the server side programming.
It's harder in our days of ajax, html5, rich interfaces in javascript, flash and silverlight etc.

-iphigenie (September 25, 2011, 03:17 AM)

It can be extremely difficult sometimes when you're working with umpteen trillion different technologies.

In 1 portion of 1 project, this is what I need to deal with:

C#
VB.NET
ASP.NET
X/HTML
CSS
XML
TXT
HTTP
JavaScript
2 Frameworks
4 Components
1 Database
6 Projects
4 Web applications (3 are also projects)
? APIs... I don't feel like counting...

I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, but whatever. Point is, it takes a lot of effort to keep each section separate and clean and working well with every other part. It's easy to see why some things turn into complete disasters. (I've been taking my time to make certain that things are as maintainable as possible. e.g. TONS of comments in code with everything as atomic as possible.)

In some ways, you're kind of like a conductor when you're programming -- it's up to you to orchestrate everything and "make music".

[40hz]

Iphigenie is perceptive as ever. 

The woman I was speaking of dates back to the "fly by the seat of your pants" era in web development; and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack. Unfortunately, she has not kept up with current best practices.

[f0dder]

and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack.

-40hz (September 27, 2011, 08:41 AM)

What, why are you using past tense?

[40hz]

and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack.

-40hz (September 27, 2011, 08:41 AM)

What, why are you using past tense?

-f0dder (September 28, 2011, 01:23 PM)

Yeah. There is that.  
But I was thinking more along the lines of it being clever rather than sneaky.
 

[Armando]

Utterly hilarious. What's also great about that piece is that it serves as a good reminder about annoying practices.

Spoiler

I should probably ashamed, but... I do like some of the "Hungarian notation" principles...  I find that, more often then not, it makes my code more readable in a simple text editor. Of course, more readable to me, hehe.

[Armando]

[Related to spoiler in previous post... ] Aaaaah. This just made me feel better. I love you guys  

https://www.donation....msg244024#msg244024

[ewemoa]

From the source:

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
- Anonymous

Thanks for sharing, Jibz!

[Armando]

^^^Would make a great "signature".

[Renegade]

and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack.

-40hz (September 27, 2011, 08:41 AM)

What, why are you using past tense?

-f0dder (September 28, 2011, 01:23 PM)

Hahahahahaha~!

Nice one~!