The Meticulous Geek - Latest Comments

Re: Hell Yeah!

Simone — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:04:47 -0000

Haha, I was thinking about creating my own but maybe that's too ambitious. Even if I do get something up and running I seriously doubt I will get a good playerbase involved (which is kinda important). Still though, I cannot deny the idea lingers in the back of my mind!

Re: Hell Yeah!

Danthar — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:54:39 -0000

What the heck! its alive! Ow and are you creating your own textual MUD btw ?

Re: Building Input Elements in IE

Bas Pennings — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:22:03 -0000

You know Grim, I've been wondering for almost two weeks know whether that is a legit comment or you're just trying to bullshit me. As I'm in a good mood I'm going to go with the former so yeah thanks, I guess.

Re: Building Input Elements in IE

Bas Pennings — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:20:26 -0000

[deleted because I lack basic DISQUS skills; see reply to GrimReaper below]

Re: Building Input Elements in IE

GrimReaper — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:21:32 -0000

This blog is awesome dude. Keep up the good work. It's nice to find someone who also realises the world is full of ass holes who haven't got a f-ing clue. Peace brother.

Re: About Being Agile

Paul — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:02:04 -0000

so easy a caveman can do it

Re: The GIP (Guild of Incompetent Programmers)

S.L. Barth — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:04:16 -0000

Hi Bas, I'm doing fine, thanks! And thanks for the SMS.
We should appoint to meet some day; it'll be good to see you again. Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to your next post!

Re: The GIP (Guild of Incompetent Programmers)

basp — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:51:31 -0000

Hi Serge, it has been a long while indeed! Though my blog may indicate otherwise, I'm doing very well! I've been doing a lot of programming and gaming lately and now that my dad has officially retired we've suddenly gained an actual living room! But that's for another post, I hope you're well too. I also owe you another set for apologies for still not returning your books... If it helps, I think about it every day :)

Now for your question, I was so inspired by it that I'm going to answer this in a whole post of itself. Thanks for commenting on this! Coincidently, I was just wondering how to people involved in the the discussion and here we are! The post should be up in a few hours and again, thanks!

Re: The GIP (Guild of Incompetent Programmers)

S.L. Barth — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:11:08 -0000

Hello, Meticulous!

Been a while - you doing well?

Now to get on-topic: you say OOP is about hiding mutable state. Isn't it about _encapsulating_ mutable state?
Maybe it's just a matter of wording - but 'hidden', in my dictionary, means that it's totally out of reach. Encapsulated state (again, in my dictionary) can be modified, but only through controlled operations.

Regards!

Re: Syntax Highlighting Test

basp — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:19:30 -0000

BTW, I checked and syntax highlighting is already supported for you guys. Just place the code inside a <pre class="brush:brushname"> tag replacing brushname with one of the aliases in the table at http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/wiki/Languages.

The one below has class="brush:csharp" and although it is not as fancy as I hoped it would be it seems reasonably functional:

public interface IFoo
{
    public IEnumerable<Bar> Bars 
    { 
         get; 
         set; 
    }

    public abstract Bar ExecuteOnce(string message);

    public IEnumerable<Bar> ExecuteManyManyManyTimes(int times, string message) {
         var theBar = new Bar();
         for(var i = 0; i < times; i++) {
              var theBars = Bars.Where(bar => bar != theBar).Select(bar => bar.Fubar());
              foreach(var bar in theBars)
              {
                   yield return bar;
              }
         }
    }
}

Just keep in mind to replace those < and >'s with < and > respectively otherwise your comment still won't look right.

Basic markup is apparently also allowed (quite a lot of tags actually) but please be gentle.

Re: Syntax Highlighting Test

basp — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:29:07 -0000

@Danthar: I will try to allow for more markup in the comment box as well as some info on how to use it but I have a deep passion for rich text boxes on the web as they never work really well, are too slow, prone to produce evil markup and usually a bitch to to work with. You know I hate Word (and word processing programs in general) to begin with so why bother to reproduce something like that on the web? I'd rather educate my readers in the virtues of markup languages because everyone knows they are the only way forward, right?

Re: To: dick

simone — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:21:24 -0000

@M: That is hilarious! Thanks for the great comment. Sorry that it took so long for me to approve it.

Re: Syntax Highlighting Test

Danthar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:23:13 -0000

Now give us c# syntax highlighting!. And a rich edit textbox to type our comments in!

Re: Syntax Highlighting Test

Danthar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:22:27 -0000

Its alive!!!

Re: To: dick

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:47:05 -0000

Glad your dick isn't mine anymore!

Re: To: dick

Yana — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:31:21 -0000

Ingenious, Bas. Shame I didn't read it earlier.

Re: To: dick

Danthar — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:22:58 -0000

LOL. Brilliant.
To bad the dick in question will never read this :+

Re: Guitar Hero World Tour Controllers

Deathraven — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:00:33 -0000

Rock on dude!. And concerning the retailers helpdesk, give em hell.