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Happy Friday. For those of us in America, today is a political holiday. But let's avoid politics for the moment. Here's a few more wtfs.
"Error messages are hard," sums Ben Holzman , mock-replying "Your new puzzle games are fun, LinkedIn, but your error messages need a little work…"
Sometimes, you see some code which is perfectly harmless, but illustrates an incredibly dangerous person behind them. The code isn't good, but it isn't bad in any meaningful way, but it was written by a cocaine addled Pomeranian behind the controls of a bulldozer: it's full of energy, doesn't know exactly what's going on, and at some point, it's going to hit something important.
Such is the code which Román sends us.
It's not unusual to store format templates in your application configuration files. I'd argue it's probably a good and wise thing to do. But Phillip inherited a C# application from a developer who "abandoned" it, and there were some choices in there.
Jun 25<appSettings>
<add key="xxxurl" value="[http://{1}:7777/pls/xxx/p_pristjek?i_type=MK3000{0}i_ean={3}{0}i_style=http://{2}/Content/{0}i_red=http://{2}/start.aspx/]http://{1}:7777/pls/xxx/p_pristjek?i_type=MK3000{0}i_ean={3}{0}i_style=http://{2}/Content/{0}i_red=http://{2}/start.aspx"/>
</appSettings>
Aaron was debugging some C# code, and while this wasn't the source of the bug, it annoyed him enough to send it to us.
protected override int DoCompare(Item item1, Item item2)
{
try
{
DateTime thisDate = ((DateField)item1.Fields["Create Date"]).DateTime;
DateTime thatDate = ((DateField)item2.Fields["Create Date"]).DateTime;
return thatDate.CompareTo(thisDate);
}
catch (Exception)
{
return 0; // Sorry, ran out of budget!
}
}