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You can lead a horse to water. You can even tie it down and force water down it's throat, but you can't stop it from vomiting all of the water immediately afterwards.1
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You can keep telling me how to code it, and I can read about how to code it, but until I've successfully coded it in a production environment 5-10 times it's all just theoretical to me.2
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$dow = date('l');
if($dow == 'Monday') {
$project = $_GET['project'];
while($dow !== 'Friday') {
exec('buildProject');
$dow = date('l');
}
exec('submitProject');
execInBackground('celebrate');
while(!isset($project_approval) {
exec('wait');
}
if($_GET@['project_approval'] == 'approved') {
exec('celebrateGoHome');
}
elseif($_GET['project_approval'] == 'nevermind') {
exec('burnItAllDown');
}
else{
exec('hangHeadGoHome');
}
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@localhost Here's the setup I use when volunteering at my church. Room for another developer but when it's just me I use synergy on both machines. Not always by the all the windows. The wheels make it easy to go anywhere in the building.8
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I may have come up with the next big thing in entertainment!
You can watch a live feed of me, while I'm watching a live feed of someone playing a video game.
Here's a sneak peak:
I'm sitting there looking incredibly bored and every 30-45 seconds I make a comment about how stupid this is.4 -
Was showing the new guy how to write a fairly simple database query with a couple of joins.
Spent 3 hours trying to figure out why it didn't work.
Finally discovered that I had randomly chosen one of the 3 records (out of a possible 15,000+) that had leading white space.
Ctrl-Z back to the first query I wrote (3 hours ago), and it works perfectly.
New guy learns a more valuable lesson than I originally intended.