Spot the Fail
A collection of humorous programming fails and silly code mistakes, shared for entertainment and a reminder to double-check your work.
A collection of humorous programming fails and silly code mistakes, shared for entertainment and a reminder to double-check your work.
A guide on using assertions in code for debugging, API contracts, and server integration, with strategies for handling release builds.
A developer introduces 'Bugreporter', a simple web tool to automatically collect user browser and OS details for easier bug reporting.
Explains how to properly implement UIAppearance for custom iOS views, covering common pitfalls and internal mechanisms.
Explores academic research on frontend development, browsers, and debugging tools, compiling papers from universities and researchers.
Explores the new Logical SQL Diagnostic view in OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1, a debug feature for analyzing report queries.
A technical blog post detailing the implementation of a world-smoothing algorithm using cellular automata in Clojure for a roguelike game development series.
A developer shares a custom debug tool to recursively list UIViewController hierarchies in iOS, improving on UIView's recursiveDescription.
Explores under-the-radar improvements in Visual Studio 2012 RC, including better Edit and Continue for lambdas and optimized autocompletion.
A technical guide to quickly complete Dropbox's 2012 Dropquest puzzle challenge using URL manipulation and JavaScript debugging to earn extra storage.
MyGet now supports publishing symbol packages for private feeds via SymbolSource.org integration, enabling easier debugging of NuGet packages.
A beginner's guide to understanding and fixing the NoMethodError in Ruby on Rails 3, explaining its common causes.
Introducing Glimpse for PHP, a client-side debugging tool that provides insights into server-side operations, similar to Firebug for the client.
A technical guide on how to disassemble and inspect JIT-compiled code for the Windows Phone CLR, revealing emulator vs. device differences.
Introduces Waldo, a tiny JavaScript bookmarklet for searching and inspecting objects in a web page's runtime object model.
A guide to displaying generated SQL queries in the Rails 3 console by configuring ActiveRecord's logger to output to STDOUT.
Guide to using SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard for performance optimization in development.
Explains how to use JavaScript's debugger statement to inspect private variables in closure-based modules, improving debugging for patterns like the Module Pattern.
A developer investigates why their C++ game executable file was unexpectedly large, discovering that debug flags and lack of optimization were the culprits.