- Never write code someone else can understand.
- Make the simplest line of code appear complex. Use long counter intuitive names. Don’t ever code “a=b”, rather do something like: AlphaNodeSemaphore=*(int)(&(unsigned long)(BetaFrameNodeFarm));
- Type fast, think slow.
- Never use direct references. Bury everything in macros. Bury macros in include files. Reference those include files indirectly from other include files. Use macros to reference those include files.
- Never include a comment that will help someone else understand your code. If they understand it, they don’t need you.
- Never generate new sources. Always ifdef the old ones. Every binary in the world should be generated from the same sources.
- Never archive all the sources necessary to build a binary. Always hide on your own disk. If they can build your binary, they don’t need you.
- Never code a function to return a value. All functions must return a pointer to a structure which contains a pointer to a value.
- Always speak in abstract. If they understand, they don’t need you.
- Never complete a project on time.
- When someone stops by your office to ask a question, talk forever.
- Load all sentences either written or spoken with alphabet soup. When someone asks you out to lunch, reply:
“I can’t because I’ve almost got my RISC-based OSI/TCP/IP client connected by BIBUS VMS VAX using SMTP over TCP sending SNMP inquiry results to be encapsulated in UDP packets for transmission to a SUN 4/280 NFS 4.3 BSD with release 3.6 of RPC/XDR supporting our ONC effort working.”
- Never throw away an old listing.
- Never address someone by name.
- Always maintain the mystique of being spaced out from concentrating on complex logic.
- Never wear a shirt that matches your pants. Wear a wrinkled shirt whenever possible. Your shirt must never be tucked in completely. Button the top button without wearing a tie.
Posts Tagged software
As you may know, I’m currently rewritting the whole pinetd project to a new project called pinetd2.
Right now, we finally have partially reached the functionnality level of pinetd (being able to receive mails, and check them with pop), and now IMAP4 is also working (you can receive mails via imap, but not yet search and do nice stuff imap allows).
pinetd2 is still missing a MTA (this should be a matter of days) and more imap4rev1 functions (this is a matter of one or two weeks). Once this is done and once PHP 5.3 is released, pinetd will be officially OBSOLETE, and pinetd2 will become the new officially supported version. Please note that extra attention has been ported to make pinetd2 compatible with pinetd, without even having to run an update tool. Just extract pinetd2 to a new directory, copy your config file from pinetd, and run it. Your config file will merged in the XML config used by pinetd2, and you’ll have to check it a last time before running the daemon for real.
