Bugs

These articles are generally about failures in software systems. I spend most of my time building software on Microsoft Windows™ so the subject matter reflects that bias.

My motivation for this category is expressed in Lessons from DynDNS's approach to problems and systems failures.

Pages

• Annoying HTML
• Errors in IIS's custom 404 error handling
• Handling COM errors in C++
• Interview by under-constrained programming
• Lessons from DynDNS's approach to problems and systems failures
• Moving from Visual SourceSafe to Subversion
  • sourcesafe2subversion Migration tool
• On following rules
  • Kirit's rules
    • The Boxer Usability Test
• Recursive rights and wrongs
• Response.Redirect and encoded URIs
• W3C's CSS validation service

Blog entries

1

To Those About to Hack

2

Chasing tail

3

Functional holes

4

First impressions of Visual Studio 2005

5

Bitten by type conversion

6

What do you get when you curry partial application?

7

Passwords, salt and cookies

8

Identity and equivalence

9

Eeek

10

total_experience != max( personA.experience, personB.experience )

11

Concurrency and isolation

12

HTTPS detection in Django under PyISAPIe

13

Multipart form problems with PyISAPIe and Django

14

Django 1.0 released (and a last minute PyISAPIe break)

15

Updated 1 row, but no change in the database

16

Embarrassing

17

Running Skype in a chroot on Ubuntu

18

Django 1.8, Django Slumber and Django Async