From http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/ Author: rudi
What if Visual Studio supported achievements, just like games on Steam, Xbox or PS3? Bragging to your coworkers about which one you’ve just unlocked, imagine that! Here’s a little proposed list for some of them. .NET / C# flavored, of course.
- Falling Down – Created a new SharePoint project
- Job Security – Written a LINQ query with over 30 lines of code
- The Sword Fighter – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with zero code changes
- Shotgun Debugging – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with a single character change
- The Mathematician – Defined 15 local variables with a single character name
- The Academic – Written 1000 lines of F#
- Spaghetti Monster – Written a single line with more than 300 characters
- Wild One – Mixed tabs and spaces for indentation more than 5 times in a single line
- The Organizer – Created a Solution with more than 50 projects
- The Portal – Created a circular project dependency
- The Multitasker – Have more than 50 source files open at the same time
- The Code Keeper – Uninstalled Resharper because it made you redundant
- Pasta Chef – Created a class with more than 100 fields, properties or methods
- Procedural Programmer – Created a method with more than 10 out parameters
- Steam Powered – Added Visual Studio as a Steam game
- The Poet – Written a source file with more than 10,000 lines
- The Enterprise – Build Solution took more than 10 minutes
- Highway to Hell – Successfully created a WCF service
- The Explainer – Written a comment with more than 100 words
- TPS Reports – Created a Crystal Reports Project
- Rage Quit – ALT+F4 after a failed bug fix
- Ooooh Shiny – Written 100 extensions methods
- Look Ma – Written an infinite Fibonacci generator using yield
- The Engineer – Killed a zombie with The Wrench
- The Architect – Created 25 Interfaces in a single project
- The Right Way – Test method is longer than the tested method
- The Defender – Checked every argument for null exceptions
- Pokemon Programming – Caught all the exceptions
- Black Magic – Implemented a RealProxy
- Gimme back my ASM – Used ILGenerator
- I’m Sorry – Created a new Visual Basic Project
- The SEO Expert – ASP.NET MVC Routing table with more than 100 routes
- The Matrix – Windows Forms with more than 100 controls
- The Daredevil – UpdatePanels nested more than 3 layers deep
- Just a Test – Nested multiline C-style comments that caused a compilation error
- Warm Bath – Successfully consumed a non .NET SOAP web service
- Old School – Defined more than 100 static objects
- The Cloner – Copy-pasted more than 50 lines
- The Dependency – Referenced more than 30 projects
- Paying the bills – Imported a Visual Basic project
- First Hit – Included a Codeproject.com library into your project and it actually compiled
- Paula – Define a firstname field with value Brillant
- Every Option Considered – Created an enum with more than 30 values
Inspired by Steam Holiday sales and Battlefield Bad Company 2. Odd web coding exposed on the mostminimalistic company page possible. Enjoy.
