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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostThat looks pretty cool. But with only 4 commercial flights currently showing across the whole of Europe, it can't be entirely attributable to the ash cloud.Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostAh, in the time I wrote the above and returned, a shed more flights appeared.
IIRC it was tracking over 800 flights when it was working properly; hopefully they'll get all their data working again soon - ah, and yes, it's backComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostAs I keep saying, there's sod all I can do about the football
Not sure what's going on with the anti-capitalisation thing, if it's a setting that can be changed then something can be done, but otherwise it'll be in a bit of code that it might be too tricky to modifyBack at the coal faceComment
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Originally posted by al_cam View PostIs there a Bob who could do the needful?
To quote Robert L. Glass:
It is almost always a mistake to modify packaged, vendor-produced software systems.
... With vendor-supplied software, there are typically rereleases of the product, wherein the vendor solves old problems, adds new functionality, or both. Usually, it is desirable for customers to employ such new releases...
The problem with in-house package modifications is that they must be redone with every such new release. And if the vendor changes the solution approach sufficiently, the old modification may have to be redesigned totally to fit into the new version. Thus modifying packaged software is a never-ending proposition, one that continues to cost each time a new version is used.
- Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, 2003, p.53
(I don't know why Amazon have appended the words "Agile Software Development" to the title - they aren't on the book, and some parts of it are quite critical of certain aspects of Agile.)Last edited by NickFitz; 17 May 2010, 18:29.Comment
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