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We put cameras in your office and caught an impromptu meeting between one of your developers and his manager. Here are the pictures. http://www.typemock.com/blog/2012/11/08/how-to-keep-your-code-secure-typemock-comic-series-1/[^]
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It doesn't compile because it's printed on sheets of paper. Then again, you can always try to hold the paper in front of a webcam and press CTR-SHFT-B. .
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99% of the time,

customer.DataExtRetList != null

. This was supposed to fix the edge cases when

customer.DataExtRetList == null

if (customer.DataExtRetList != null) {
  this.QBInfo.DateCatSent = "";
  this.Source = "";
} else {
  for (int i = 0; i < customer.DataExtRetList.Count; i++) {
    IDataExtRet ext = customer.DataExtRetList.GetAt(i);
    if (ext.DataExtName.GetValueOrEmpty() == "Date Cat. Sent")
      this.QBInfo.DateCatSent = ext.DataExtValue.GetValueOrEmpty();
    else if (ext.DataExtName.GetValueOrEmpty() == "Source")
      this.Source = ext.DataExtValue.GetValueOrEmpty();
  }
}

modified 9 Nov '12 - 22:35.

Daer frnds, need help urgenz. Most time my code simply not work. Sometime it give errro refernce not setting object. Plz help its urgentz.
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Why do you think I posted it in this forum? Did you miss the mistake?
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And do you see that I marked it as a joke? Oh dear, I know the meaning of this forum, and I saw the problems the code snippet causes. And I posted like someone would do who uses to write such code. That seems to be beyond the joking capacity of an average CP member though, as can be deduced from the votes...
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Ouch. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
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That is a level of fail which leaves me speechless.
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I can do it even better ... Yesterday I found that gem in my own code Boolean deleted = false; if(deleted){ ... } what a great luck I wrote it only five minutes before I observed my supersophisticated State-of-the-art-Failure...
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In few of the reports I came across this while doing some maintenance work... beautiful isn't it ???

select ......
where 
 
and F2TRDT  >= " & Year(Parameters!DateFrom.Value)*10000+Month(Parameters!DateFrom.Value)*100+day(Parameters!DateFrom.Value) & "
and F2TRDT  <= " & Year(Parameters!DateTo.Value)*10000+Month(Parameters!DateTo.Value)*100+day(Parameters!DateTo.Value) & "

Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *

Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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