Cabbits!

These were taken from the Dilbert Blog.  I found them through digg, but the site gave a 404. So technically, Igot it from a comment on that digg item. Either way, just wanted to share it.

1. Read things that don’t matter, then write papers saying they do matter, for points that don’t matter, in order to get a job doing something totally unrelated: Student
2. Take numbers on pieces of paper, rearrange them and put them on different pieces of paper: Tax Accountant
3. Explain big words to sales people and then cower before customers while trying to convince them that the sales people really didn’t say what the customers understood: Customer Solutions Engineer
4. Learn laws created ages ago so that I can tell engineers why I’m smarter than they are while complaining how it’s a travesty that they get paid more: Physics major
5. Show you innovative ways to burn money in the spirit of patriotism: Fireworks Stand Manager
6. Help people lie consistently to their bosses: Business Intelligence Consultant
7. Teach your kids enough to complain but not enough to make a difference: College Teacher
8. Stand on a field and get yelled at for hours: Baseball Umpire
9. Make people who are already filthy rich somewhat richer by duping poor people into buying stuff they don’t need: Corporate Software Engineer
10. Find as many synonyms for “explosion” as possible: Novelist for Teenage Boys
11. Supervise the guys and gals who try to protect the good people from the bad, only to be hated by the good people AND the bad: Police Sergeant
12. Watch the lunatics take over the asylum: Teacher
13. Manage waste recycling, promotion & sales: Antiques Dealer
14. Arrive after the battle and bayonet all the wounded: Auditor
15. Sell gas: Energy and Telecom Business Analyst
16. Tell forty year-old men it’s okay to behave like fourteen year-old school girls: Printing Press Production Coordinator
17. Make corporate propaganda feel like folksy truthisms: Tv Ad Director
18. Shepherd clients through the process of setting their products on fire: Consumer Products Tester
19. Manage urban renewal and pest control: B-52 Bomber pilot
20. Persuade kids that it’s really fun being wet, cold and scared out of their minds: Sailing Instructor
21. Draw up plans for something that will not be built according to those plans: Civil Engineer, Transportation Design
22. Teach kids to be evil…or so they say: Video Game Creator
23. Ensure that stupid people stay in the gene pool: Lifeguard
24. Do all the tasks nobody else wants to do: Admin Assistant
25. Wear a tuxedo and smash metal plates into each other: Musician
26. Go to strange people’s houses and take their money: Pizza Delivery Boy
27. Sell gluttony: Cinema Concession Stand Attendant
28. Tell people that they can’t spend money they thought they had: Government Analyst
29. Take pictures of the unlucky and the stupid: X-ray Technician
30. Profit from the misfortunes of others: Cops and Courts Reporter
31. Take a simple two-way promise and turn it into several complicated one-way promises which neither side can understand or hope to fulfill: Lawyer
32. Bring a little rain into the lives of flood victims: Government Debt Collector
33. Have people spend far more than they estimated: Building Inspector
34. Make sure nothing ever happens: IT Security
35. Move things from one tube to another: Microbiologist
36. Clean up an animal that makes more money then me in a year: Assistant Horse Trainer
37. Make people feel bad about their work: Quality Assurance Tester
38. Be a human napkin: Stay-at-home mom of three
39. Make food that is as healthy before it goes in your body as when it comes back out: Fast Food Employee
40. Repeatedly fix what you repeatedly break: IT Director

His top 10
1. Help people hate each other: Divorce Lawyer
2. Talk in other people’s sleep: College Professor
3. Try not to kill the baby: Housewife
4. Show people how beautiful the Earth would be without them: Mountain Landscape Photographer/Climber
5. Copy and paste the Internet: Student
6. Write words that no one wants to read: Technical Writer
7. Misinterpret the universe: Astronomer
8. Spend most of the day looking out the window: Pilot
9. Run away and call the police: Security Guard
10. Sell magic potions filled with psychotherapy: Bartender

Update: After more thought, making a dev app and a live app is a good solution. It just doesn’t seem elegant.

I have searched the wiki and forums for a way to implement revision control but see no proper way to utilize revision control. Whether a developer is using SVN, Bazaar, CVS or some other system, managing their Dev environment separately from their Live environment is essential for evolving code.I’ve seen mention of Test Accounts in my search for an answer. However, after reading the documentation, I see this is useful solution for a Pre-Release application. The problem I’m worried about is once I let my app out into the wild. Bugs fixes and feature additions are going to be a part of any application development. Revision control helps to aid in an easy transition from version 1.0 to 1.x and eventually 2.0.

I currently use SVN to maintain my Dev and Live environments. It is kinda like my security blanket since I can break Dev and not affect Live users. My concern with developing a Facebook app is when I move from production to release. The best feasible solution I can see for versioning is to make a dev app and a live app, with each pointing to their respective repositories. This solution doesn’t sit right with me because I would have to go through the new application process twice for each app I want to make for Facebook.

I know that Matt Huggins wrote an article addressing the same issue, his suggestion of a sandbox would be perfect for a Dev repository. I was wondering how other developers are handling versioning.

Drunken Elephants are bad, mmmkay?

“The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them,” Hilton said.

My first thought when I read this was that Paris wanted  to make sure the elephants were properly carded.

For real though, you got to admire Paris. Fuck trying to end world hunger, poverty, senseless war, human rights violations. Those causes are sooooo yesterday. Drunken Elephants is where the real publicity, er charity is at.