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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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Brisingr Aerowing15-Jan-13 8:48
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"Internal Electromagnetic Shockwave Generator Stablizer Error"

Not sure if I should run or not.

(Don't have a screenshot, sorry. Forgot to get one)

This popped up when an error occurred while starting the debugger (it was a stack overflow).




On a similar note, I hit an error yesterday that had me going around in circles for several hours.

I have a service manager class that contains a method GetService. I overrode a property from the base class to provide a logging service implementation, and left the message service property alone.

Well, that message service property called a method, which called the GetService method, which returned the message service property...... I think you can figure out where this one is going.

The problem that caused the strange error message above is a different thing, caused by a goof I made while using CassiniDev.

Baboom.

Bob Dole
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