This is one of the those subtle bugs that I have unwittingly coded in because of the inherent laziness that is afforded by Autoboxing, a feature that was available with Java 1.

I’ve got a new digital camera! Well kind of, the camera being my Razr phone that I had with me for almost a year now.

The title sounds like a bold claim, given that the comparison sounds like one between apples and oranges.

People like to think that startups are those ‘cool’ little things that I do, just because it is the hottest in to be in these days, with all the fad about Web 2.

One of the things that I’ve learnt that Netbeans is able to do, was the ability to perform auto-bracket completion.

When dealing with large source files, there is a tendency for visual blindness to kick in, where there is just too much code everywhere for you to find things like the start of a method or a particular important segment of code, in a sea of random visual clutter.

I’m not a web-application developer, so writing Ruby on Rails code is basically just a past-time.

One of the early things that I needed to for a web application, was to try to map all unhandled or malformed URLs to be sent to Rails.