20090619 Bits & bites, 2

The menu for this week consists in: an appetizer of iPhone OS 3.0 and iPhone development ethics coming from unsustainable sources, and some slices of funny spam which may produce you constipation, a main dish based in Opera Unite topped with a little bit of failure from Microsoft (to give a bit of a sour [...]

20090615 Coding nightmares

Upon reading the title, I think I’m right in assuming you probably thought I was going to write about a set of bad practices, or a series of horrible things one could find when refactoring code written by someone else. None of that, this time I’m referring to real, literally speaking, nightmares. I think it [...]

20071127 Let us mind our own business

Found this comment in a weblog: i was minding my own business one day then suddenly this thing popped up asking me to debug using microsoft script editor. what is debug? why is it happening? when i press ok, it stopped and said that something is null and not an object. leaving me no choice [...]

20070517 Array.indexOf in Internet Explorer

According to this document at Mozilla Developer Center, Javascript 1.5 has been implemented in a browser since at least the first releases of Mozilla as open source browser, which means, in other words, since around 1998. Let’s assume it was 2002 which is marked as the release of the 1.0 version. And I was doing [...]

20061217 Easier and more secure

“Easier and more secure”: That’s how Microsoft describes the brand new Internet explorer 7. I don’t really know about the security since I haven’t used IE7 myself, but on Friday I got a desperated call for help from one of the colleagues at the office. Could you please help me with this browser? I lost [...]