OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Subtle Flag Waving

There are lots of major issues with Internet Explorer that I wish they would fix. Here is a really, really minor one that annoys me again and again.

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Categories: Insufficiently Advanced Technology
Tags: internet explorer, UI, usability, whinge

The Case for Case-Preserving, Case-Insensitivity

I think that *case-preserving, case-insensitivity* is, almost always, the optimal behaviour. This may be somewhat controversial, so let me explain my position.

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The World Of Case Sensitivity

A review of the different ways that different software treats case.

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Categories: S/W Dev
Tags: case-preserving, case-sensitivity, comparison, S/W Dev

The World of Upper- & Lower-Case Mappings

A quick look at the world of upper- and lower-case

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Categories: Geek,S/W Dev
Tags: case, internationalisation, linguistics, typography

Obvious Coding Style Guidelines

An example of an obviously poor coding style

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Whatever happened to RPN?

Whatever happened to Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)? Progress! That’s what!

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Version Number Challenge

Here’s a little challenge for the software developers.

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Categories: Puzzle Solving,S/W Dev

Kangaroo Patting – an Australian Family Ritual

People who aren’t from Australia will be unfamiliar with the place of the Kangaroo in a great Australian ritual. This is an attempt to explain a small piece of the Australian culture.

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Bug Report: Brain dereferences uninitialised pointer

I have been noticing an odd phenomenon when I am in the zone…

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Exco Ruciating

War-story about a word processor

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