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Re: I am today's Tesco prize winner: first ever pop-up seen while browsing CodeProject

7-Mar-14 5:02

BillWoodruff wrote:
in hopes of accessing some high-quality UK teevee

You'll be lucky! I can't find any and I live here! Laugh | :laugh:

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Marco Bertschi7-Mar-14 5:40

Marco Bertschi

7-Mar-14 5:40

OriginalGriff wrote:
You'll be lucky! I can't find any and I live here!

That's because you live in Wales.

Wait - We are talking about the resolution, don't we?

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Re: I am today's Tesco prize winner: first ever pop-up seen while browsing CodeProject

OriginalGriff7-Mar-14 8:22

Re: I am today's Tesco prize winner: first ever pop-up seen while browsing CodeProject

7-Mar-14 8:22

No, no we have HiDef TV in Wales.

Sometimes up to 64 by 128!

DaveAuld7-Mar-14 6:54

DaveAuld

7-Mar-14 6:54

That looks like a standard JavaScript alert() dialogue.

Re: I am today's Tesco prize winner: first ever pop-up seen while browsing CodeProject

JimmyRopes7-Mar-14 17:39

JimmyRopes

7-Mar-14 17:39

BillWoodruff wrote:
I decided to try-out using the ZenMate free extension for Chrome, and I picked a server in the UK in hopes of accessing some high-quality UK teevee: could that be how the little Tesco beastie swam up the river-digital to spawn on my screen ?

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Rant about "free code"

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.7-Mar-14 3:53

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

7-Mar-14 3:53

There is a big kick now about making free code as a part of a resume. Everywhere you go, every tool online, skimps (eschews for sat prep) documentation and instead provides code for various languages. And you know what? In many cases it is totally crap!

Unholy nightmares, testing for cases that never exist. Not returning error messages, using complex LINQ commands embedded in massing hierarchies of generics. Missing explicit tests, hard-coding the wrong things, including massive numbers of (n>0) third-party libraries to do trivial things. Really? Is this code the bar for excellence?

This post was prompted by a "library" that used the new System.Net.Http.HttpClient because its new, and wait for it:

<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.httpclient%28v=vs.110%29.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.httpclient%28v=vs.110%29.aspx</a>[<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.httpclient%28v=vs.110%29.aspx" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
  HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("http://www.contoso.com/");
  response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
  string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

Used the MSDN which is wrong! Can anyone that has used Rest Services tell me why the above won't work? (This isn't a programming question, just a comment on the shear lunacy of public .NET projects.

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ledtech37-Mar-14 4:29

ledtech3

7-Mar-14 4:29

Without trying it the first thing I notice is it is missing this line.

// Create a New HttpClient object.
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

Info from from this page.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.httpclient(v=vs.110).aspx[^]

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.7-Mar-14 4:38

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

7-Mar-14 4:38

Lol, why is it the programmers can't see past snippets that don't compile. When I look for code samples, personally, I don't want a 50 class project with interactive user interfaces for three different devices, 6 databases, custom deploy scripts, mono-support, and advanced graphics just to show me how to open a file stream : )

Point is the snippet I provided, as it is, which is from MSDN, and surprisingly from the project I was looking at, has a fundamental flaw when being applied to rest methods or generally speaking services on the interwebs.

This isn't a code lounge so I am not going to go over it.

ledtech37-Mar-14 4:47

ledtech3

7-Mar-14 4:47

I've noticed some of their samples do have flaws.
I think they are written by interns.
I usually post a comment when I find and fix a problem.

dan!sh 7-Mar-14 4:57

dan!sh

7-Mar-14 4:57

Here's what I found today:

public void GenerateDiffGram(string originalFile, string finalFile, 
                                    XmlWriter diffGramWriter)
{
   XmlDiff xmldiff = new XmlDiff(XmlDiffOptions.IgnoreChildOrder | 
                                    XmlDiffOptions.IgnoreNamespaces | 
                                    XmlDiffOptions.IgnorePrefixes);
   bool bIdentical = xmldiff.Compare(originalFile, newFile, false, diffgramWriter);
   diffgramWriter.Close();
}

harold aptroot7-Mar-14 5:05

harold aptroot

7-Mar-14 5:05

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Unholy nightmares, testing for cases that never exist. Not returning error messages, using complex LINQ commands embedded in massing hierarchies of generics. Missing explicit tests, hard-coding the wrong things, including massive numbers of (n>0) third-party libraries to do trivial things.

Doesn't this apply to all code?

S Houghtelin7-Mar-14 5:16

S Houghtelin

7-Mar-14 5:16

Not the Holy nightmares[^] Unsure | :~

It was broke, so I fixed it.

jschell7-Mar-14 9:32

jschell

7-Mar-14 9:32

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
skimps (eschews for sat prep) documentation and instead provides code for various languages

Just noting that the fact that someone can code (or even can't code) doesn't mean that they are capable of creating documentation much less something that is suitable as a tutorial.

Marc Clifton7-Mar-14 9:40

Marc Clifton

7-Mar-14 9:40

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
GetAsync("http://www.contoso.com/");

Did they really use that URI?

Marc

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.7-Mar-14 10:01

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

7-Mar-14 10:01

Not in the open source solution but in the MS documentation, why/

Contosi

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer8-Mar-14 21:41

8-Mar-14 21:41

If that was a serious question, here's the answer:
Why do I see the same fake names in Microsoft samples over and over?[^]

Iain.

I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!

Well the company moved and...

glennPattonWork37-Mar-14 3:45

glennPattonWork3

7-Mar-14 3:45

Hi All,

The company I work for took the plunge and moved to larger offices as we had run out of space. The problems started well with the site being too far from the BT exchange to get fast broad band so we had to go with another supplier who mucked us around and we still don't have proper broadband access it is being done via a 4G modem. Everything that could be shifted was moved and the final heave happened. Can I find anything? Smile | :)

OriginalGriff7-Mar-14 4:23

7-Mar-14 4:23

Well, you have clearly found your PC - or at least your phone! Laugh | :laugh:

glennPattonWork37-Mar-14 4:25

glennPattonWork3

7-Mar-14 4:25

And a network port that works Huzzah! Wink | ;)

OriginalGriff7-Mar-14 5:02

7-Mar-14 5:02

Shhh! IT will "fix" that if they catch on... Laugh | :laugh:

glennPattonWork37-Mar-14 5:40

glennPattonWork3

7-Mar-14 5:40

Umm, we don' have an IT dept. the rule here is you broke, you fix it, everyone's PC is different and we are small enough where a specialist IT dept is not really needed! Smile | :)

S Houghtelin7-Mar-14 5:18

S Houghtelin

7-Mar-14 5:18

glennPattonWork wrote:
Can I find anything?

At least they told you where they moved to, not like that guy in documentation who's still going to the old location. Smile | :)

It was broke, so I fixed it.

OriginalGriff7-Mar-14 5:32

7-Mar-14 5:32

Reminds me of Lilly Savage / Paul O'Grady on moving house:

"Never move on a weekend, or bank holiday.
The traffic will be bad, the parking will be difficult, and the kids'll notice and want to come as well."