November 26th, 2007
“Unexpected Error 0×8ffe2740 Occurred” – this message appeared today on my PC when I was trying to start IIS. A while of “googling” revealed that this is rather normal behavior of the server 
According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816944 this error occurs when some other application uses port 80 (default for a web server).
Instead of expressive error message they create KB article with explanations
October 26th, 2007
Every coder sometimes encounters a situation when a bug must be fixed. At the begining it looks for a very easy task... but the code reveals that it might be quite tricky 
Here is one of most common antipattern - hardcoding mixed with magic numbers. Please fasten your seatbelts 
C#:
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EditorDatabase EditorDB =
new EditorDatabase
();
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if (UserIDTextBox.Text == "0" && LoginRoleDropDownList.SelectedValue == "11")
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{
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EditorDB.Save(CodeHiddenField.Value, TextGridView.Rows[rowID].Cells[5].Text,
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System.Convert.ToInt32(TextGridView.Rows[rowID].Cells[10].Text), TextGridView.Rows[rowID].Cells[8].Text,
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0, spr, TextGridView.Rows[rowID].Cells[11].Text).ExecuteNonQuery();
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}
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else
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{
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EditorDB.Save(CodeHiddenField.Value, TextGridView.Rows[rowID].Cells[5].Text,
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System.Convert.ToInt32(TextGridView.Rows[rowID].Cells[10].Text), TextGridView.Rows[rowID].Cells[8].Text,
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System.Convert.ToInt32(UserDropDownList.SelectedValue), spr, TextGridView.Rows[rowID].Cells[11].Text).ExecuteNonQuery();
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}
