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Have you ever prepared a certification ? Well, for me, it’s the first time, and it proves a very nice occasion to learn stuff you should never do and hopefully will never meet in real code. Still, it’s fun like hell So, what am I speaking about ? Well, stuff like these :  Java |  copy |? class ExtractsFromTheExams{ [...]

Can it get possibly worse? This time it was well known developer Joe Stump, who had an important bug-fix for his company’s game Chess Wars sit in App Store limbo for six weeks. Finally, this morning an Apple representative named Richard called Stump to inform him why Chess Wars was being rejected after the six [...]

oh my god… myserver:~# apt-get moo (__) (oo) /——\/ / | || * /\—/\ ~~ ~~ ….”Have you mooed today?”…

via Video: Douglas Crockford — The JSON Saga. that was fun But this was late in 2002, we’d just started the War On Terror, and we were going after the evil-doers with the President, and the Vice-President, and I felt like I need to do my part. [laughter] So I added one more line to [...]

lavalamp Crazy framework !

i stumbled upon a very nasty corner-case using enums. i wont call it a puzzler, but you may want to try to predict the output of the following:  Java |  copy |? public enum Person { PETER, PAUL, MARY;  private Food favFood;  Food getFavFood() { return this.favFood; }  static void setPreference(final Person p, final Food f) { p.favFood = [...]

did you ever buy at CDBABY.COM !? how fun is that? Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing. [...]

I have to admit, this video about Bill Gates’ last day at m$ is really funny. At least one thing, they’re good at. Thanks to Andre (who is a ms addict, by the way ) for sending over.

So, he obviously did hire YODA (you know, the one with those ears)… Here is an Errormessage from QuickTime to prove it:It would translate to something like “The file not a movie it is”.