Defrag chaos

This is after I managed to delete unneeded files from the C drive, which had run out of space.

Lesson for the day: If someone is responsible for admin of a key (read business critical) server, don't let them go on holiday if you'll have to pick up the pieces and sort out any problems, when it hasn't been proactively managed, while that person is away.

EDSK: businesses are not run by (or for) I.T. departments

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003875.html

Example of poor usability

It's definitely a good idea to be consistent within software.  This is especially true when indicating special behaviour or requirements.

For example. It's not a good idea to highlight a textbox in one part of a program to indicte that it is a required field and then highlight a textbox in another part of the program, in the same way, to indicate that the text box is read only.

The duality of easy adoption

If it's easy to do something, that's good as it makes life simpler and avoids unnecessary complexity.

If it's easy to do something it normally means it's easy to do something badly.


It's better that some people do things badly because it's easy than everyone had to do something a more complicated way.


The challenge is to know how to do something 'the right way' and also to educate those who don't know.

Representative comment

This is a genuine single line comment I just came across in some code I was trying to get to compile.

//Can't be in a transaction here...not sure why....can't be arsed to check. Hack Hack Hack......