August 2009

Hard to spot bugs

Submitted by pwnell on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 12:08

It took me a full 10 minutes to track down this stupid bug.  It is not intuitive.  I guess it is the penalty one pays for terseness:

          vCostEntry.getCost().put(vDBField, Utils.makeProperString(vExportToExcel).equals("DISCOUNT")?((int)Utils.getDouble(vRawAmount)):GetIntFromFormattedCurrency(vRawAmount));

Some definitions to explain above:

 

  public Map<String, Integer> getCost() {

    return mCost;

  }

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Why you will never have enough RAM

Submitted by pwnell on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 16:29

Bill Gates is famous for having said we will never need more than 640KB RAM on a personal computer. However if you ask someone today whether say 18GB of RAM is enough for a development workstation, what do you think the answer would be?

I am sure most people would argue even if you run 3 VM's each using 2GB RAM, and an IDE and mail and browsers and Word and whatever, you will not easily exceed 10GB of RAM. So it should be more than enough.

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Best UI Ever

Submitted by pwnell on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 18:45

This must be one of the slickest web sites ever: http://www.taptaptap.com/#convert

And this app - Convert - has the best UI I have ever witnessed on an iPhone.

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