Sorry for being a little late: the T2’09 challenge just started. Via the F-Secure weblog. Don’t be fooled by the fact that page already contains two entries (“Mr. Speed” and “Mr. Style”) in the top. From what I understand, these are to signal that two winners will be ...

An other instance from the “bugs which will bite you” series:

public class TestStatic {
    static class Foo {
        static Foo instance = new Foo();
        static String name = Foo.class.getName();

        public Foo() {
            System.err.println("Hello, my name is " + name);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.err.println("Your name is ...

I know, I know, I’m quite late to the game (Freakonomics was first published in 2005 ...

C++ compilers are notorious for giving error messages which point you in the wrong direction. However even simpler languages can have issues. Can you spot the real problem with the java code below?

There is a comma missing between the parameters! Nice, ey? (To be fair, on the sidebar Eclipse ...

Something which is not appreciated enough IMHO is just how much of the interwebs runs on Perl: for example Frozen Bubble is written in Perl. Also, from some error messages I’ve got the impression Yahoo Pipes uses (is written in?) Perl ...

Some time ago I posted about how the Google Gadget code for Youtube seems to be borked up. Now it seems that they completely removed the option from the YouTube pages, for whatever reason, but the old code still seems functional. So below you can find a small Javascript which ...