Monthly Archives: January 2007

Nasty JDK varargs bug?

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I may have just hit a nasty JDK varargs issue. If you have two constructors with the same number of non-vararg parameters and one of them has an additional varargs parameter, you need to be very careful which is called. … Continue reading →

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Handling Rails 404 and 500 errors

Posted on January 14, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to handle 404 and 500 errors in Rails. This is not simple and actually really annoying. Hopefully future versions clean this up because right now it sucks pretty badly. … Continue reading →

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Firefox tab navigation

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

Finally found the plugin I was looking. It is called called Swift Tabs. Every other application I use provides the flexibility to change the next previous tab keys, and even though I had the option, the defaults for everything was … Continue reading →

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Google JSON issue

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I’m not a big fan of Google’s engineers in general, but this one is an excellent example of Google just being stupid: http://www.ddj.com/dept/webservices/196800994 Apparently, the Google engineering genius decided that it wasn’t important to ensure the request coming in VIA … Continue reading →

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