April 19, 2007

Funny error message

Ok it has been quite a long time since I posted anything at all..
Though I did write a few drafts and deleted them, thought I'd rather live in the present and not be sadistic to the reader, talking about things long lost!

Anyway, enough of crap...
Let me get to the funny parts!
Most of you know I dont really love my manager, rarely..
So its not really difficult to imagine my feelings when he's seen around my desk more often than not.
I was writing an interesting piece of code and was in my elements and so...
I ended up doing (not really unintentionally this time though) what I always used to do when I was in college.
Report errors to the user of my software in a rather not so polite manner.
Actually there was a place in the software where the user was supposed to enter a file name to retrieve some info from that file.
And an error message was to be displayed when he entered an invalid file name.

Now tell me how glad you would be to use software which gives you an error message saying,

“Incorrect file name! Why don’t you read the user’s guide properly? If you can’t do that you don’t deserve to use this software. Go to hell!”
This just popped up when my Manager was reviewing the code and testing it!

My team mate fell out of her chair laughing…
If only I had foreseen this happening....
There'd have been a lot more in that error message for sure!



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