What do you think? If yes - where would/did you? If no - why not? Did anyone ever get in trouble for that? Where do you think lies the line between a funny/insightful easter egg and embarrassing yourself in front of your boss/clients/open source community?...
I know it is illegal to place Easter eggs in code via Microsoft's quarrel with the law a few years back. Microsoft has decided that if you place Easter eggs in code, it is an immediate grounds for termination, but they are still out there in the wild. I know I put my name in the code a lot that will never show up to the users, but it i...
Since the early days, Palm OS has had a special "easter egg" mode that's enabled by making the right gesture in one of the Preference panels. On current Palm Treo and Centro devices, this is turned on by doing a clockwise swirl above the "Tips" button in the Power panel. Some applications, like the Blazer web browser, enable special fe...
The Help->About dialog in GUI applications has historically been the place for some very "interesting" (and often funny) functionality and easter eggs. How would you define the purpose of the About dialog? What function does it serve in an application, and who is the target audience? What's the best use (or abuse) of an About dialog ...
I am looking to have a C# application implement the Konami Code to display an Easter Egg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code What is the best way to do this? Update 1 This is in a standard C# windows forms app. ...
I've read of an easter egg as part of an actual programming language command (Python's antigravity), I was wondering if there were any other easter eggs or anything undocumented for other languages or popular APIs? Are there other undocumented commands that could actually be considered useful? Some I've heard of: Python antigravity co...
Today I was bumming around in /usr/share/emacs/23.0.91/etc/ and I found the HELLO file. That directory is full of such gems, but I was wondering if there are other, more obscure, easter eggs in emacs that you all might know about. From a terminal window run emacs like so: emacs --no-splash -f view-hello-file This starts emacs and open...
What would be the best way to implement the konami code into a flex application? I want to create a component to add it on all my proyects, just for fun. thanks UPDATE: I made a simple component, thanks to ZaBlanc <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:UIComponent xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" creationComplete="init()...
Yesterday, I have submitted an iPhone app to Apple through itunesconnect.apple.com. It is my second app, so after submission, it appeared as second in a list. The first in the list was my first app, with the app icon having rounded corners. My new app, however, had straight corners, just like the icon file that I delivered with the app....
Let's try to make this for our favourite technology too, how do you think? Hidden code tricks, unknown usages of known features, application server easter eggs are what are we looking for. So, proposed rules are simple: One feature per answer. Code example, if it is the CFML/CFScript feature. Application server name and version where...
I don't want to actually MAKE the pong easter egg, but for anyone with Dreamweaver, try typing 'dreamweaver' into the color selection box to play a round of pong. The bit that I want to know how it works is the bit at the end once you lose. After your loss, it will immediately play a small tune, whether or not your volume is on. In fac...
In Delphi 2009, SysUtils.pas contains this in line 425: EProgrammerNotFound = class(Exception); Is this simply an easter egg or something serious? When should this exception be raised? Does it also exist in Delphi Prism and/or Free Pascal? Conclusion (after reading the answers so far): This exception might appear in fun source c...
Why does Amazon.com have <!-- MEOW --> at the end of their landing page? I have heard that it is just some text that some sort of script or component looks for to tell if the entire page was rendered. Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, is it a good (or common) website monitoring practice? ...
Hey all, I'm looking for ways to obfuscate the following c#/silverlight source code: if (searchBox.Text.Equals("string literal")){ MessageBox.Show("another string literal"); } So far all I can come up with to hide it is encoding the strings as arrays of ascii... Thanks EDIT All I want is for the source code to be un...
Hi guys I'm working on a project for a client, and we want to make a easter egg, when you click some of the letters in the logo. There are three letters, and you have to click in the right order, before it activates the easter egg. However, because it's in a link, I wondered if I could use CTRL+Click...? I've searched the web, but coul...
Hi there I'm working on a easter egg, where you have to activate some links in the correct order, before the secret is revealed. I can't get this script to work. I guess I've wrote something wrong, but can't see what it is... <script> $(document).ready(function() { $('#show').hide(); var StepOfThree = 0; a...
I understand it's an inner joke that's meant to stay (just like “from __future__ import braces”), but what exactly does it do? ...