DecimalFormat Is Broken
bloid 
via chasethedevil.blogspot.com
A friend of mine recently noticed that the good old DecimalFormat class is "broken". If you try to parse a string that is not a number but is starting... more »
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Bullet-proof cookies? Why bother?
This post was on the front-page of dzone today: Bullet Proof Cookies. Did anyone actually read the article? This shows a horrible way to use cookies.... more »
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Dear Developers, Don't Hardcode Copyright Years
One easy place to make your website look current is in the copyright text at the bottom of the page. This is a rather obvious and easy thing to do,... more »
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CSS Child Selector Performance
mswatcher via ajaxian.com
Are child selectors slower than more simple brethren? This is a question that Jon Sykes sought out data for after he read the work of Jim... more »
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PR-Agentur - Texter Wien - PR-Agenturen
Mag. Alexandra Kropf Texterin und Kommunikationsberaterin in Wien
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What Would I Do Without Programming?
One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chem department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my... more »
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line-height: abnormal
bloid via meyerweb.com
Here’s the punchline: the effects of declaring line-height: normal not only vary from browser to browser, which I had expected—in fact, quantifying... more »
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Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?
bloid via alistapart.com
Many believe that zebra stripes aid the reader by guiding the eye along the row. However, despite being in use in both paper and electronic mediums... more »
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An Under-Appreciated Fact: We Don't Know How We Program
bloid via paulspontifications.blogspot.com
I was talking to a colleague from another part of the company a couple of weeks ago, and I mentioned the famous ten-to-one productivity variation... more »
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Java: Beautiful enums
Whatever complaints you may have against java, I think you have to grant that at least enums are a thing of beauty.
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The Power of the JVM
fdiotalevi via headius.blogspot.com
In the past couple days, a new project release was announced that has shown once again the potential of the Java platform. Shown how the awesome JVM... more »
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Java 6: compile once, run nowhere?
Java's strength is supposed to be "compile once, run everywhere". This claim is true in most of Java 1.4 and 5.0 applications. But what about Java 6?... more »
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Ubuntu Studio 8.04 Hardy Heron: ya està disponible para el download Ubuntulandia
Ubuntu Studio es una distribución Linux basada en Ubuntu. Está orientada a la edición multimedia profesional de audio, video y gráficos. Desde el... more »
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The Season of Slashdot's Discontent
It's been a scratchy couple of days in the tech blogging world for Drupal, as a review of David Mercer's new Drupal book veered off-topic and turned... more »
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Performance improvements in Substance 5
Looking at the comments on the announcement of release 4.3 of Substance look-and-feel, the three major pain points for the users are: performance,... more »
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Creating a tiny Java ME Mobile application
Short summery of creating a simple Java ME program, a servlet and communication between them.
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JavaOne session on high resolution monitors
I have the honor to be joined by Mike Swingler (Swing / AWT lead for Apple VM) and to present an evening session on high resolution monitors at this... more »
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Useless Hackery: A Scala Quine
bloid via codecommit.com
Warning: This post has little-to-no practical value. Waste time at your own risk… While double-checking the terms for my previous post, I came... more »
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5 PHP 5 features you can't afford to ignore
bloid via mtabini.blogspot.com
There are dozens of reasons to switch to PHP 5—not least the fact that, if you're still stuck on PHP 4, the PHP team is about to pull the rug from... more »
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Bigger And Better: Trends in Mobile Screen Sizes
bloid via sitepoint.com
An interesting couple of posts in the past week by Morten Hjerde, in which he compiles Norwegian usage data (mobile phones with color screens, support... more »
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Programming Psychology - Return home early
bloid via debuggable.com
Forget design patterns, forget unit testing, forget all those functions you know. Important is to question why they exist and how they could be... more »
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Simulating Crowd Dynamics: Flow Lanes and Character Animation
The latest games consoles can simulate very large crowds if you do it right. This article looks at how to approach the problem, with practical... more »
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WebKit: CSS Masks
bloid via webkit.org
WebKit now supports alpha masks in CSS. Masks allow you to overlay the content of a box with a pattern that can be used to knock out portions of that... more »
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Sun looks to free up the rest of Java
bloid via news.yahoo.com
San Francisco - Sun Microsystems is stepping up efforts to boost Java usage in Linux shops by working to remove some final encumbrances in the... more »
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