So we’re at the mall, and they have these vertically oriented plasma displays rotating ads. Or normally they display ads, but at the height of the commercial season, they’re showing errors. If I worked for that company I’d do three things:
step 1: change the desktop background image to a static image of my most important client’s ad.
step 2: put a global exception handler into my program.
step 3: fix it.
Honestly, why would you pick Windows, and .Net to develop a mall kiosk application? And if you did, wouldn’t you run some tests? Granted this isn’t life or death software here, but it is the life of this business.
The error up close
Mall Advert Fail
#1 by dbackdad at December 22nd, 2008
Which is worse – that error happening or me actually trying to research the problem? Sad. Might be a firewall issue: ryarcclient.exe error