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“Just-in-time” inserting rows into a database
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“--” in XML comments
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“childs” is not a word
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3-Dimensional Photo Organization
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An encoding for newline you’ve never heard of
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Automatic reconnect from Hibernate to MySQL
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Avoid adding “drive-by formatting changes” to commits
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Avoid using out-of-date operating system images in Docker by always using the
docker build --pull
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Bug Analysis: Some Checkboxes Get Myseriously Deselected Some of the Time
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Bugs in uboot.com BJ
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Constraint name visibility on MySQL and PostgreSQL
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Copy/paste between Excel and MSN
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Crazy algorithm for displaying text size value
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Debian 10 box in Vagrant fails with
grub error
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Don’t use gettext
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Git loses untracked files during “stash” if there are conficts
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Hibernate error means the complete opposite of what it says, due to wording error
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Hibernate, Boolean Fields, and MySQL 5.x
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How to generate “svn info --xml” from Java code
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How to prevent Jetty, deployed via Docker on AWS ECS, behind an AWS ELB, redirecting from secure HTTPS to insecure HTTP
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If you want to generate code, make sure your target language is not Java
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In Java, private classes can be used in signatures of public interfaces. This makes no sense.
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It’s not acceptable to restart the user’s computer, losing their data, without their permission
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Java gotcha:
anArray.hashCode() isn’t deep, but aList.hashCode() is
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Java varargs: inconsistent behaviour if you pass an array
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Java was lacking a String “join” function
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Java: Always explicitly specify which XML parser to use
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Mice, along with everything else in life, need reboots these days
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Monitors, as with everything else, need rebooting sometimes
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Mozilla Thunderbird sucks
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My PC’s door
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PC fire
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Paper jams
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Per-CPU performance statistics are useless
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Playing a CD on a computer is not as easy as one might imagine
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Programming Languages: Is newer always better?
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Puzzle: Transfering a hex number. Normally works, but very rarely arrives as the string “INF”. Why?
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Quotes in CSV Files
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Random unreproducable Tomcat error of the day
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Sexy girls
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Slowest ever response to a job application?
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Solved: Jetty “null127.0.0.1” error
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Solved: Jetty doesn’t show errors on web application start-up
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Sony Vaio Support (Day 1)
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Standards are less useful in the presence of fools
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Starting Jetty: FAILED
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Task tracking numbers are not a substitute for documentation
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The
SUM(col) of zero rows should zero, but is instead NULL
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The failings of MySQL’s
curtime function
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The importance of remembering how to spell your name
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The method invocation operator, and expressions, in PHP
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Too much data for the browser window? Solution: iframe
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Two great comments about Windows
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Unbelievable PHP limitation of the day
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VPN fail
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Warning: MySQL
LOCK TABLES command does an implicit commit
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Why am I using Hibernate?
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Why does my internet router have a “standby” button?
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Windows has a limit on the length of file paths
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You can’t work out what the type of data is by looking at the data itself
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/etc/cron.daily scripts may not have dots in their name
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gmail errors using T-Mobile UMTS card
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mysqli_affected_rows gotcha
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perl switch statement limitation