Be glad you’ve never had a bug this bad. We’ll, I suppose maybe you have. Bad bugs suck.

HOWTO (or not to) write a bug report.

I found a fun VS 2005 bug today:

1. Run an application with an assert that’s hit
2. Bring up the JIT debugger, based on Windows/Studio prompts
3. Edit and save a file while (or after) debugging from that VS session
4. If the file’s name was mixed case, Studio will save it in all-lowercase (and now you have 2 files with similar names)
5. The new file will also have its line endings munged/reversed/mixed

I’ve seen this bug before, but have never been able to reproduce it reliably. Reverting it, of course, requires moving the changes to the original file by hand (or the diffs will be messed up).

A lightweight Firebug plugin for browsers other than Firefox.

A very complete guide to CSS float theory, including descriptions of many common browser bugs (mostly IE) and workarounds.

I haven’t seen anyone else complain about slow transfers from adobe.com, but when I download flash-player from any of my Linux systems it’s as slow as playing Doom 2 on a old 6505. I’ve tested it on a number of systems now, on different networks, and a few times over the past few months. I get the same result: 35 B/s. Yes, that’s bytes. Is Adobe filtering connections from Linux systems, or are they just incompetent?

Update - It sped up after 4 hours, hitting a whopping 10Kb/s. Wow.

God Damn I Hate Cygwin, a story of an unhappy Cygwin user. I bumped into the same bug tonight and couldn’t believe how many normal options could cause it to fail so hard.

There seems to be a bug in Dapper’s Rails installation, so if you happen to see:

... console.rb:25:in `exec': No such file or directory ...

Take a peek at the answer on this Ruby/Rails forum thread.

Automating development stuff is good,. This week I added WWW::Bugzilla to an exception-POSTing tool we use at work. The library trivialized posting bugs to Bugzilla from script and worked right out of the box.

A set of screenshots outlining a bug in IE7 with form element font sizing.