Seriously, Outlook?
Microsoft’s crack UI team shows us, yet again, how not to write an error message.
Worlds Colliding Violently
Programming, Drumming, Cooking, Cars, Mozilla, and the Trials & Tribulations of a Geek from New Jersey.
Archive for General geek related entries.
Objective C Methods
About, above, across, after, against, among, around, at, before, beside, between, by…Objective C.
How not to handle customer service, the Philly Car Share way.
Philly Car Share is a non-profit car sharing service that operates throughout Philadelphia; seems obvious by the name, really. Either way, there’s a blue Mazda 3 in a PCS pod that I pass by when I’m in the city, and I noticed yesterday morning when I drove by that someone left the lights on [...]
Less Annoying Google Results
Google’s search results now have a max-width on them. If you have a big monitor, this change might annoy you.
Tomcat is Hungry
Tomcat is eating slashes in JavaScript. Bad Tomcat, bad!
MySQL Headaches
MySQL 5.0 Indexes
Before MySQL 5.0.60, the index_type option can be given only before the ON tbl_name clause. Use of the option in this position is deprecated as of 5.0.60; support for it is to be dropped in a future MySQL release. As of 5.0.60, the option should be given following the index column list. If [...]
Boxee Bugs — Part 1, Movies
Boxee + Movies == Steaming Pile.
BigDecimal – BigAnnoyance
Nils got it right nearly three years ago, but it’s still very much broken here in 2009.
A calculation as simple as (289898-54545) / 54545 will throw a fun java.lang.ArithmeticException error.
It’s a good test calculation, because the resulting number, 4.314840957007975066458887157393[...], is a good precision test, and sure enough, it will cause an error every [...]
Well, it’s official.
Hulu and boxee broke up, possibly for good.
Happy 23:31:30 UTC!
It’s been 1,234,567,890 seconds since the epoch!
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