Fat

And the whole world knows I'm fat and I'm proud
Just tell me once again who's fat

There are only two kinds of people

Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

Where does good code come from?

It is a good question, and apparently several people keep asking it. I found a a visual representation of the problem:


You can find the original here, with many other interesting comics.

The interesting thing is that it seems that coding right and coding fast are like oil and water (or, to quote from the Godfather part three, like money and friendship). But is it true?

At the beginning, it surely is. But, after applying - and applying, and applying, and repeating and repeating all over again - you will actually be able to code right AND fast. That's where katas come in handy. Who knows, you might also be able to exit the "are you done yet" switch before requirements change...

The Speed Camera Lottery

This is a funny way to try to educate people to respect speed limits:



I doubt that our administrations would allow such an initiative, that would deprive their pockets; yet I wish it were feasible, as there are far too many victims on our roads.

Did you really mean "variable"?

As seen in a request for support:

Where does the system get the $ExternalParty$ variable? is it variable or fixed?

The sentence has been translated, but in no way altered in meaning.

German wisdom

Do like the sundial:
Only count the bright hours

Spiderman busted!

This is the revenge of J.Jonah Jameson...


The picture is one of the most beautiful ones shot by Los Angeles Times Photographers in 2009; find the others here.

Way to go waterfall!

Despite being an advocate of agile methods, I have to admit that waterfall can yield spectacular results...


(First seen in the xpug-milano mailing list, thanks to Giulio Cesare)

Progress?

You work for a company that produces custom software products. One of your customers experiences a warning message. To give you the best feedback possible, he disciplinately gets a printscreen of the application displaying the message and one of the directory that contains the files produced by the application.

Well educated customer, ain't he? at this point, as you have a helpdesk account, he e-mails the picture with some explaining text...

...too simple, isn't it? that's why he actually printed the images, scanned them, converted them into a pdf and emailed it...

Of course this enabled him to pen down a couple of notes on the images, but... ehm...

Why British people play rugby

Englishmen play rugby because they invented it. Welshmen, Irishmen and Scots play rugby because if they bashed Englishmen in any other way they'd end up in jail.

Thanks to Pancho for the hint.

Mowing the lawn? pun(s) intended

Here in Italy a funny commercial for chips presented by Rocco Siffredi was (foolishly, IMHO) banned. I can only wonder what would happen to this hilarious spot...



...even if, after all, nobody said anything to Gianluca Grignani...

Anybody can have an opinion, right?

Since MS Access is THE best application on the planet, you can right-click your way to happines...

I swear I really read it...

Every build you break...

Roy Osherove singing in Barcelona, TechEd 07. Pity for the slightly too long introduction.

A new use for sudo

Gotta try it... will it only work with sandwiches?


The original comic can be found here.

Faster than light

Probably Superman was carrying it...

It's all about tact... more or less

How do you tell someone she's not helping? Well Ken Schwaber has a pretty straightforward way of doing it:


Thanks to Michael J. Vizdos for the cartoon (and all the interesting stuff you'll find on his site).

A new use for Google Maps

Surfing around the web looking for Ajax applications I decided to try Google Maps paying attention to the technical stuff beyond it (want to see the code? try JSView, a Firefox plugin - BTW, I hope that the Google guys obfuscated it, because if that's the way they actually code... urgh! I can't understand anything!).

Anyway, I typed my address, hit the button and bang, the map smoothly appeared under my eyes: wow, awesome! And it is so easy to move around, and the responses you get are so fast! On the left there are additional informations, like pictures of places situated in the vicinity of the point identified using your search string. Another additional information is represented by personal maps, which is a nice feature that enables you to pinpoint interesting places. I saw such a map and decided to check it and... I could not believe it... I'll report an abstract of the description so you can get an idea yourself:

XXX is a 22 years old, pretty, blonde, long wavy hair, likeable, a very easygoing girl. She stands near YYY, under the railway bridge coming from ZZZ, pity she's a little plump.

I entered puzzled mode and went like "Ow, there must be some mistake... let me check this guy's maps..." and in the beginning everything looked fine, some restaurants and stuff, but going on you find a (probably) incomplete list of all the harlots he pays visits (among other things) to... and for each one he provides not only the location but also a brief description.

<ironic mode>Now, that's a service! (pun not intended) if you're looking for new friendships, including foreign cultures representatives, you have another ace in the hole (ehm... pun not intended)</ironic mode>

Swimming in deep (brown) water

Pampers towels are wonderful. Ideal Standard XL bowls are wonderful. My sons are wonderful.

Only, you don't have to put them together, as they don't exactly go hand in hand. Ask my wife for further explanations about the title of the post.

BTW, I will never stress enough the importance of living in a small town which provides you with a neighbour deep involved (believe me when I say I really mean it) in the cleaning of sewers... thanks again!!!

Revenge of the fat

<crap mode on>To all the people obviously so envious of my wonderfully shaped body... find here one more advantage of being fat!

ps can anybody help me? I cannot exit the crap mode...

Agile?

It is quite an old ad, but if you're lucky maybe the post is still vacant... hurry and apply!