The goto is considered harmful. In general. If anyone finds a goto keyword somewhere in a code base nowadays, the default action is to identify the author of this code line and instantly assassinate him. It’s safe, because jury always sides with heroes who do good for public
General Archive
A while ago I used to work with one legacy platform. It started its existence more than 10 year ago, most probably as a customer specific solution which turned into platform. It’s still quite popular and I guess it covers major user requirements. But as it happens with systems which doesn’t evolve good enough or evolve the wrong way, it ends up as small hell even for vendors’ developers. I was third party developer, but for my job I had access to most of the production source and since stumbling upon funny and frustrating comments I decided to create a collection. Here’s part 1 of it
Once in a while I get stupendous insights of Life, the Universe and Everything, like “Ah, but that makes perfect sense, how could I have missed this before”. At some point of my life I was really fascinated by a field called Futurology and various future trends. I had great moments reading books about foresight into the the future of humanity and technology. Yet a bit later I came across a thing called Gartner Hype Cycle curves – graphs, which show you significant technology trends in the next 10 year period. It’s quite fun to compare different year curves and see what was the long running trends and what failed to establish
One evening I was pushing an iOS app update to iTunes Connect. Somehow I have accidentally entered word “android” in release notes text box and it was… censored?!
In this article I will focus on Windows 8 Metro app publishing to Windows Store. At the end of the article you’ll find a screencast of whole publishing process. Before we can start there are several things that you must already have: Windows Store developer license; Fully developed and tested app; Additionally test your app with the Windows App Certification Kit; Test your app if looks alright in the snapped and fill view states. You can’t disable or turn off snapped view for your app. The fastest workaround is to show some static image or logo when your app is snapped; Go one more time through Windows 8 app certification requirements and check if your app meets requirements
I am going to rant a little about the movie Prometheus. Firstly, I would like to say that I really like sci-fi movies, especially the ones with alien life forms, so I am a little biased. However, that being said the movie was not as great as it could have been if not for many illogical things and other inaccuracies. Lets talk about some things that I thought were stupid/weird. Space travel: as you may know the speed of light is currently considered the fastest speed there is. The closest star system from earth is Alpha Centauri. If you were to travel to that star system at the speed of light it would take you approximately 4.24 years. Yet in the movie they were in cryogenic capsules for 2 years and 4 months. Now obviously they were not flying at the speed of light, they must have traveled a lot faster. So what is the problem you may ask. The problem is that it is the future, shouldn’t they be teleporting or using wormholes to travel? Because right now it just seems that hey were traveling with some regular old technology, but just many times faster than the speed of light. I mean where the 2 years come from? Also why bother using cryogenics fur such short periods
So this is our first post. Not Really Code is a brand new blog where we, several enthusiastic bloggers will try to provide you with up-to-date information on everything that is new in computing world: from product launches (including apps, books and more) to IT related parties/meets and events. In this blog you can expect to find code snippets for website enhancements, reviews of newest magazine articles and lots of behind-the-scenes activities such as new hires, IT gossip and many more interesting things. You don’t need to know anything about programming to read and understand our blog posts, we will try to explain everything as simple as we can. But you should know the basics of using a computer e-mail, browsing the web, listening to music, and so forth. If you can start a program and save a file, you should have no trouble reading our blog posts. Don’t be shy and help us improve this blog with your comments and feedback