Why is this such an insidious error in Java? (An opinion piece!) A Comparison Firstly, I’ll show a short comparison between some Java code and some code from a language that doesn’t have NullPointerExceptions, but does have something that allows you to accomplish anything you might want to do with null pointers. This Java code: [...]
Has no one told the people behind the Workflow Management Coalition that April Fool’s passed over two weeks ago? Intrigued at what I first thought was a joke, I downloaded one of the proudly-presented documents on the front page: Understanding the BPMN-XPDL-BPEL value chain. I chose it because of the three as-yet-unknown acronyms in the [...]
A search for the phrase "It’s like a light of a new day," breaks in more than one way. Not only does Google search fail to recognize that “it’s” is a word, it also ignores the quote marks, searching for the phrase as individual words.
In order to close a window: Ctrl+Shift+W Firefox Gnome-Terminal Ctrl+W Nautilus Ctrl+Q Seahorse Firestarter Liferea Gedit Synaptic Gnome-System-Monitor It seems Nautilus is the odd one out; Firefox and Gnome-Terminal use Ctrl-W to close a single tab and Ctrl-Shift-W to close the whole window. Nautilus uses Ctrl-W to close a single window and Ctrl-Shift-W to close [...]