To anticipate and prevent
This is one of those errors that popped up on me that initially left me baffled and amused. Once you look up and find out the explanation for “Activity has lead window”, it makes sense, but the idea of an application having “leaky windows” is still quite hilarious to me (unlike memory leaks, which suck…
A lot of the code I post and tech bits I fix are things I find while working. Sometimes I can’t explain the bigger picture, sometimes it simply doesn’t matter. Most people don’t care about the why, but simply the how (to fix something) like the “Cannot Save Attachment” message in Outlook 2007. But with…
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Recently I was messing around on Android with the BrowserView’s and BrowserIntent’s. When trying out one of the examples, I got: InetAddress: Unknown host www.google.com throwing UnknownHostException Every URL I entered, it displayed a “Page cannot be found” type error. At first I thought it was the site I was trying to use, but obviously…
One thing I yearn for when I am programming is a debugger like Perl’s interpreter. If you had a bug in your code, it would tell you almost exactly where it was, and even suggest fixes sometimes (Ex: You probably forgot a semicolon at the end of line X). Unfortunately, that isn’t the case with…