I've had my MacBook for over 2 years. Initially I avoided installing virtualization or even BootCamp to run Windows. I was forcing myself to adapt to OS X, get out of my comfort zone, and learn more about that different environment. The mac was also my Ruby On Rails development machine and I wanted...
For a few weeks now, every time I try to logoff from my home banking website something bad happens. See screenshot below. (screenshot eaten by backup failure.) Firebug opens unexpectedly There's a frigging debugger; statement in the live production site The logoff process hangs until I press F8 in...
I've been using Vista since the official release (skipped the betas) and I've been trying to convince myself that some of the changes were made for the better. In particular, I've made some effort to get used to the new file explorer but somethings have been harder to put up with. Anyway...
No bug in Windows (XP and 2003) has annoyed me more than the one I just learned how to get rid of. For no discernible reason, while using the Windows Explorer the treeview on the left would just go bananas and display multiple Desktop icons. As seen in the following image. The additional Desktop icons...
A friend of mine was telling me about a bug he found in one of his applications caused by a simple lack of escaping quotes when producing CSV files. It immediately reminded me of an old trick in .NET. If you really want, you can create CSV files using ADO.NET and OLE-DB (or ODBC.) I wouldn't necessarily...