!rant

Saw a few guys having some issues picking up on angular 2. There's currently a really good course on angular 2 that's about a week and a half old, so pretty up to date, on pluralsight. Just search for angular 2 and order by date.

For those who don't wanna/can't pay, you can get 3 months for free on it by signing up on Microsoft devtools. If anyone wants direct link just say it(not sure if allowed).

Btw, I'm not affiliated what so ever with pluralsight, although I really like it. Just passing some information specially regarding angular 2 which is a pain to learn due to legacy code.

Boss: We need to talk

"It must support IE6."

I have an idea but no time to build it. So I'll throw it out there and see if anyone does it.

How many times have you had an idea that just couldn't get off the ground without a little assistance. Where do you go? How to "pay" them for their work? Etc.

The development community needs a place where you can volunteer to help with side projects and get paid in karma... which you can then later use to "pay" other developers to assist on a side project of your own.

We are already a community that loves to give back, and collecting fake internet points. Why not put those to good use?

I kid you not, this was in some of our official corporate training.

Unfortunately, this often is how our business area "functions"

Never forget the WHERE clause on UPDATE :(

For my fellow javascript devs:

var floored = 12.68 | 0;

Is much faster than:

var floored = Math.floor(12.68);

And in both cases floored === 12
#JustJavascriptThings ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
Performance test: https://measurethat.net/Benchmarks/...

If you ever fuck up really bad and it makes you feel terrible, just remember, a company once flooded a whole town in molasses, killing 21 people.

So I'm at this disco thing for family and all I can think about is being in my den coding away. Anyone else have this issue ? :D.

Just because someone has been a dev for longer than you doesn't mean they're better. In fact they're probably worse and you've seen monkeys write better code than them

I am planning to get Lynda and before I do, are there holiday discounts? Thanks.

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re·fucked·or
[rəˈfəktˈôr]
VERB
To refactor code into a state much worse than when you started. It is often accompanied by files containing many lines of code, usually with an obscene amount of nesting.

That moment when you look at other peoples code and realize you are not as shitty at coding as you thought.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live... because if I don't know now, I will find it out.

I love my wife, God bless her, sent her a pdf file via email. Couple of hours later she replied with (and only) 'Can't view the PDF document'
That's it. No reason why, nothing. I was afraid to respond and ask why. "Oh..I accidentally knocked your laptop on the floor and it caught on fire, so I dumped a bucket of water on it." rolled around in my head a few times.
I get home, open the email, click on the document, opened just fine.
Me: "Um, why couldn't open the attachment?"
Wife: "Attachment? What did you do? It wouldn't open for me."
Me: "I just clicked the file. What did you do?"
Wife: "Oh. Supper is ready, help me set the table."
It was all I could do from screaming "OMG! THIS IS NOT THE FIRST ATTACHMENT I HAVE SENT YOU!!"
She made me baked chicken breasts marinated in Italian dressing and some other spices with melted cheese...big baked potato, pile of mix veggies......mmm...so all is forgiven.

The dumbest idea that has ever been pitched to me is Donald Trump for President.

Starting a new project in a new company. After 4 hours of training and receiving all kinds of new information another collegue passes by and says:

"Hey! So where are you from?"

"I... Don't know..."