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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[...] big refactoring project to replace the usage of double types with decimal types. Everything seemed to go well, at least until there was a network hiccup and the application couldn't connect to the database. Let's see if you can figure out what happened:

MessageBox.Show("Please decimal check the connection details. Also check firewall settings (port 1433) and network connectivity.");

What a clbuttic mistake.

I don't actually get the joke with clbuttic, though. 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A long time ago I worked on a project which had all the user-facing text strings in their own separate file (for ease of translation). I didn't think much more of it at the time, but even if I was just rubber-stamping this PR then seeing that a code-only refactor was touching the strings file would raise an eyebrow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's a good practice. Seems obvious now that you've mentioned it, actually, but I don't think I've ever done it. Except maybe incidentally when building an i18n table.