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No upvotes for Dilbert? Come on guys!
Mind you - I do have some sympathy for Dilberts current predicament, tomorrow I have a review of my 'Team Management Profile' followed by session 1 of the 'Leadership and Management Development Programme'.
What did I say wrong?
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Caught up with Friday's daily news, then?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Friday is weekend! I do all the reading for Friday and Saturday at Sunday morning... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Seen on a T-shirt: Come to the dark side; we have cookies.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Yoda: Dark the dark side it is! Very dark!
Kenobi: Stop complaining and just make yourself another toast.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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...with the dark toaster...[^] 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Bacon Sizzling - Bacon Makes Everything Better[^]
Found using The Useless Web[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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That site is f***ing useless! :P
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Not as useless as this one[^]... or should I say, these two?
Can you believe that someone actually thinks that that's worth paying two domain fees for?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I really wonder what the owner of those two domain was smoking at the time.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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woo... there are dark corner of the web I never saw before, hahah! 
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How many people here have heard of Link Grammar[^] (before this post, of course).
I am working on a C# wrapper for it for a document editor program I am building with DevExpress controls, and it is taking quite a while, as the API is absolutely massive (and I am writing all the P/Invoke stuff by hand).
If anyone is interested, I can put it up on Github as its own repository.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yes I am interested. Please post it on Github.
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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Never heard of... But you made me curious to check it with Hebrew...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: as the API is absolutely massive
Once you get familiar with DevExpress' way of doing things (particularly how certain properties are exposed deep inside a hierarchy) it gets easier. I've found that most of my common questions have already been answered on their online help system (though it can take a bit of google-fu to find the right answer) and their help is pretty responsive to new questions (though they tend to link you to some already answered but not quite the same question answer.)
At the end of the day, I tend to wrap their controls in my own classes that expose the behaviors that I want in a more sane way, which really helps get a new project up and going once I've got the common functionality under control (pun intended.)
As to Link Grammar - wow, a huge home page, but how the heck do you do something practical with it? I'd love to see an article on that!
Marc
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I'm talking about the Link Grammar API being super massive. I have about 300 lines of code written for the P/Invoke, and I am not even a third of the way down the first of three header files for that library.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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At my current position (which will last until end of May this year, but that's not the point) I'm not only responsible for the development and deployment of the election analytics and reporting software, but also for the user documentation (we're a small company). What I'm currently looking for is a piece of software which is Editor, Built-in help and Wiki in one single solution. What I want to do is:
- Write documentation parts, completely with screenshots (preferably I'm able to create them from within the editor). I also want to edit the screenshots directly from within the editor - Add highlighting, arrows and so on.
- Reference documentation parts from within the application (something like a built-in help).
- Group multiple documentation parts into a document which then can be handed out to our customers and users as PDF
- Versioning for anything I write in the editor.
I'd prefer to go with an open source solution which could be tweaked to fit our needs.
Why do I look out for that? Well, I'm tired of copy-pasting pictures into word documents.
Edit: For those interested, I'll start a new gig with an insurance ERP supplier by June. The company has major insurances in Switzerland as its customers, plus some in germany and the BeNeLux area. For the start I will stick with the life insurance team.
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congrats on the old -> new job Marco
I agree that a Wiki is the correct 'track' - that means the documentation can 'grow' / 'live' rather than end up dead - hopefully find a BA or tech savvy business user and train them up on <whatever product="">
Chris Hulbert has some interesting stuff on his site - this may be of direct interest to you Simple C# Wiki engine | Splinter Software .. Im guessing you've done a Google and seen this GitHub - roadkillwiki/roadkill: A modern .NET Wiki - I havnt found a 'perfect' solution out there - I used to use 'Twiki', Ive used Confluence, Sharepoint as well, Sharepoint being the 'least nice' experience
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Off Topic
Are you still living up Woop Woop or are you back down Sydney way?
Done the last 16 weeks in the CBD and have probably 2 - 3 weeks left on the contract. It's be good to catch up for lunch.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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yeah - why not (woop woop is done and dusted) - Wednesdays and Fridays work for me, how about you ?
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: yeah - why not (woop woop is done and dusted) - Wednesdays and Fridays work for me, how about you ?
I'm in Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. Pick a day and I will try to stick to a time we pick. Some times hard to do depending on what the staff in Brisbane plan on the fly and then want me to cover for them.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Garth,
thanks for your thoughts. We're currently using Confluence for our internal documentation. As stated in my post, not finding a wiki software is crucial, but making it easy to write and update documentation "on the go". I'll have a look at Chris' approach, could prove interesting even though any web solution has the downside of installing a Web server locally - Our systems are mainly used to count election data from scanners, and are often cut off from the web.
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modified 18-Feb-17 9:08am.
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