Joseph Cooney had a brilliant idea for a new application certification program. But Vista's bland white-on-gray badge, in my opinion, doesn't properly communicate the.. authoritative.. nature of said program. With the help of Jon Galloway, we zazzed things up a bit:
Heh. There are days I wish I could hide behind such certifications with Subtext. When we get the most obscure error report. But alas, unless Iām hosting everybodyās blog on my machine, I donāt have that recourse.
Wait, now thereās an idea!
P.S. I didnāt see the Works On My Machine T-Shirt. Let me guess, works on your machine.
Does clicking the āXā in the upper right hand corner of a WinForms or browser application count as a code path?
what about a āCannot replicate user errorā for Support Teams?
If I had a nickelā¦
Can we get some stickers? This looks like it needs to be a monitor certificate.
Very cool, canāt count the number of times Iāve said that. Now I can just point at my shirt!
I was doing just great up to step 4 
I think you guys need a less advanced certification.
Wait. It has to COMPILE?!
Oh man! You guys want the WORLD!!!
For an advanced certification, add a feature that overrides some default behaviour that changes for .01% of the customers. Run it against your same old test data and confirm that indeed, for this case, the overriding behaviour isnāt called. Job done!
Never add automated tests. Why waste time writing tests when you can be spending that time writing code? For bonus points, check in your changes if the test looks āgood enoughā, or if the test fails but you didnāt notice due to doing it two minutes before clocking off on a Friday afternoon.
Reminds me of the website http://www.chezmoicamarche.com (āChez moi a marcheā, meaning, of course, āworks fine hereā).
Fun post, I sense some frustration against fellow coders ? ^^
How about the T-Shirts. I would need a 100 of them for all the programmers etc in my company.
They sure would not like the idea of missing awards on programming.
On my knees ā¦ clutching hands and with des(exhas)paration: -
Pleeeeesee gimme those 100 T-Shirts. Mine is the first largest order!!
Whatās the licensing on the logo?
What is it about this blog that I cannot simply select/highlight a section of it? It wigs out and selects half the page.
Can i use the logo on my site? whatās the license on it?
Youāre aiming a bit high. Iād like an āWorks OCCASIONALLY on my machineā Maybe with an added āJust after a reboot if i donāt touch anything else and I sprayed my immediate surroundings with voodoofied chickenblood and applied the correct raindanceā
But maybe it would be a bit too long to put on a logo. Upside is that it would make the text very small and thus unreadable and more usableā¦
iāve misread the red sign and read: āworms on my machineā.
and it sort of makes sense 
My professor taught me long ago the five proof forms:
Two of these are used rather too often, including as evidence of complete code testingā¦
Your point is well taken, but I think youāre being a bit TOO harsh. There really are plenty of instances where the userās machine, or something else in the environment, causes obscure differences that couldnāt be legitimately foreseen. It seems like every month or so around my work, we get a customer that canāt use our website properly because some non-standard router along the way is illegally breaking up packets or something. The lengths we have to go to account for oddities that are outside of the pale is remarkable.
Which isnāt to say that this canāt be used as a copout.