
Verity aces it once more.
"What better way to dispel the rainy gloom of an English summer," mused Ms Stob, in an introduction presumably written some time in March, "than a mass office sing-along to a selection of IT-themed pastiches?" Pretty well anything, we'd have thought. Nevertheless, here is the raw material. Portable Development (Tune: Willow …
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and the coding is sweaty
The boss is jumpin'
and the stress level's high
Your client's impatient
and the code is spaghetti
So please little process
don't you die
One of these mornings
You're gonna stop dumping
Then you'll spawn your sub-processes
and be ready to fly
But 'til that morning
I'll just keep on hacking
and maybe the deadline won't pass me by
[ with sincerest apologies to George Gershwin ]
To the tune of L. Cohen - Hallelujah)
Now I heard there was a secret code.
That a monkey typed and it pissed the Lord.
But you dont really care for good code do ya.
He typed and he flailed
Till the compiler failed
He smashed his screen and he threw his chair
and the stressed out Steve he cried out loud
I hate computers , I hate computers,
I hate computers , I hate computers.........
I've got dozens of the buggers...
e.g. "Shut Down the Server" to "Waltzing Matilda"
"Mend my PC" to "Under the Sea"
"No IntToReal" to "Run to the Hills" by Iron Maiden
"Three-fingered Salute" to "Four-Legged Friend"
..and one for the real old-timers: "The Oldest PC In Town"
..and possibly one of the most fun choruses about the TCP/IP application programmer's interface