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[Reply #45 on:]

I'm back from IKEA today (my initial motive to start the rally;)). The lady at the return&exchange took real pride in defending IKEA products, being IKEA furniture owner herself. I don't see that very often these days. +1 for her. But I was surprised to find out she was also a person of reason. After she tightened a few cams and tested again, the bookshelf was still wobbly. She admitted defeat and gave me store credit. +2 for her. For the record, this bookshelf, the BILLY, is/has  become a piece of engineering crap. Even grade school kids should know parallelograms are unstable.

[Reply #46 on:]

ting is on Sprint network, their data coverage isn't that good in my area according to their coverage maps.

Thats impressive. I live just outside of Middle of Nowhere, Maine, and even we get 3g data coverage.

[Reply #47 on:]

Not too much of a complaint, but I hate having to refactor code before it even does anything, sometimes the first cut is just too wrong to go on.

Duane B

[Reply #48 on:]

What does "refactor code" mean?

[Reply #49 on:]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring

Edit : my approach isn't anywhere near as structured as the wiki article suggests, and I only do it when my gut tells me to.

Duane B

[Reply #50 on:]

What does "refactor code" mean?

It's fancy-talk for "clean up the illegible mess you made writing the first version".

[Reply #51 on:]

What does "refactor code" mean?

It's fancy-talk for "clean up the illegible mess you made writing the first version".

It is true that is is fancy-talk for "clean up the illegible mess you made writing the current version".
More importantly is that a good IDE provides support for doing refactoring (like eclipse and visual studio do) .
For instance you can go to a function/variable/class and refactor->rename which renames the function/variable/class everywhere it has been used. And it does this taking into account the namespace. A standard find and replace does not do so.
This is a great feature when you have a serious amount of code.

Best regards
Jantje

[Reply #52 on:]

So collecting up the various pinModes and rewriting into an array and then looping thru it might be refactoring?

[Reply #53 on:]

So collecting up the various pinModes and rewriting into an array and then looping thru it might be refactoring?

To me it is.
Best regards
Jantje

[Reply #54 on:]

What arseholes think this stuff up?

You mean "Who thinks of opening the car door at 60 knots to see whether it dings?"? 

[Reply #55 on:]

We even melted one with thermite.

Did it say "I cannot self-terminate" when you tried to shut it off?

[Reply #56 on:]

Perhaps refactoring is the wrong word then, basically my initial abstractions no longer stand up as the project is progressing and so i need to pull the classes apart and create new more appropriate one from the parts.

Duane B