Showing posts with label programing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label programing. Show all posts

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Programmer Jokes

I am technically a Systems Analyst, but I work with programmers and consider myself to be somewhat of one (if only as a hobby at home). So I found this thread of programmer jokes to be hilarious. Warning, there are some off-color jokes at the link, so the faint-of-heart may wish to abstain.

A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. The car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. They were sure they were all going to die, when suddenly they spotted an escape lane. They pulled into the escape lane, and came safely to a halt.

The physicist said "We need to model the friction in the brake pads and the resultant temperature rise, see if we can work out why they failed".

The engineer said "I think I've got a few spanners in the back. I'll take a look and see if I can work out what's wrong".

The programmer said "Why don't we get going again and see if it's reproducible?"

Friday, June 15, 2007

Geek Question: Ruby on Rails pros & cons

This post is more for the software/web developers in our community. I recently started looking into Ruby on Rails as a development framework for some of my web development. I was wondering what you all have or haven't heard about it. I'm mostly looking for any negatives - since there are tons of positives out on the web - but I'll take any positive comments you have as well. Thanks for your help.