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Okay, you got me…

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 by Enrico

Michael somehow found an opportunity to slip a pesky extension into my Firefox called the Total Confusion Pack. I was just tired enough when I woke up this morning that I was scratching my head trying to figure out why vowels were spontaneously going missing or why seemingly “safe” links actually got me RickRoll’d. [...]

JSR-666: Elaborate Joke or Profound Statement?

Monday, March 31st, 2008 by Enrico

We just recently caught wind of some proposed “extensions” to Java under JSR-666. One of them in particular had us all laughing and that was the yoda keyword. Here’s example code showing how this new keyword would be used:
yoda (UnsupportedEncodingException) {
String s = new String(byteArray, “UTF-8″);
}
I didn’t quite get [...]