Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Among the more persistent bugs I have been chasing recently involves a set of interrelated windows. The case in point was a parent window (A) that opened a child window (B) via JavaScript. The child window (B) was set to check whether the parent window (A) is still open before ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
I am not 100% sure if it is a bug, but the consensus within my company seems to indicate that it is. Here is a copy of the bug report filed with Sun:
synopsis: DecimalFormat with a Lot of "#" Returns Incorrect Results for Floats
FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java ...
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Saturday, January 1st, 2005
In the past two weeks, three different computers I have worked on for clients displayed the same problem: Outlook would stopped working completely with some weird error message. Doing a quick check with telnet to my own mail servers and running tests on other computers with clients' mail servers quickly ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
Joel has a great piece which mentions the right approach to bug fighting:
For example, if I assign a bug to a developer I expect them to:
1. reproduce the bug
2. if it's not immediately reproducible, make a good faith effort to figure out why it's happening to me instead of just ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
I filed my first bug with FireFox today: when running self.resizeTo() function in Javascript twice the toolbars on top strech a bit too far. You can try it for yourself below:
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004
One of the bugs we reported to Sun before got posted to Sun's bug database under # 4987749 (although it might take a day or two to propogate). Use this link:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4987749.html
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Monday, January 12th, 2004
A copy of the bug report we submitted to Sun is included here for the curious: (its long and nasty)
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003
After some digging in the JVM source code, our CTO came out with the exact source of the problem and a possible workaround. Of course this is all at your risk, so don't blame us or Sun if you have problems. A copy of the message we submited to Sun ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003
We have been hunting out a nasty bug in our code involving processing of large XML files via Java String, StringBuffer and byte[]. We finally narrowed it down to the following line:
byte[] byteArray = largeString.getBytes();
which fails with:
java.nio.BufferOverflowException
at java.nio.charset.CoderResult.throwException(CoderResult.java:259)
at java.lang.StringCoding$CharsetSE.encode(StringCoding.java:340)
at java.lang.StringCoding.encode(StringCoding.java:374)
at java.lang.StringCoding.encode(StringCoding.java:380)
at java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:590)
and guess what, it ...
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