Tom Lachecki

Fringe's token fifth and final season is now four of thirteen episodes down, with the fourth having aired just last night. Here's a spoiler-filled dump of my thoughts so far.

It has begun: There is no such thing as "an auto"! See, this is why I disagreed with the proposal to add this syntactic sugar.

Last year I "left" Stack Overflow but, as predicted, recently found myself trickling back onto it for the fame and glory. Then, this.

I made a mistake that could have cost my application its stability. Learn from the error of my ways!

Why you should never point svn:externals to a dependency source tree's HEAD, and how spectacularly things go wrong when you do.

svn copy's behaviour when copying directories to paths that already exist does not quite match that of Linux's cp command.

Is the Thunderbird-Firefox relationship getting you down? Does clicking links occasionally result in Thunderbird totally locking up for over a minute, before Firefox bursts into life with the requested page? Apparently this started around Thunderbird v3, and here's how to fix it all the way up to v12.

Alex Darby writes about "the Stack", referring to both the ISO standard and Bjarne's C++ book and complains that they both evade the concept of a stack or a heap as used for laying-out objects in memory.

Struggling to get variable substitution to affect targets and dependencies in GNU Make? Here's why, and how to fix it (if you don't mind a good hack).

Stuck with a nasty memory leak somewhere in a large AJAX-driven application that only shows up in Firefox, and no native tools with which to diagnose it, I decided to give DynaTrace AJAX Edition a go. Unfortunately, Mozilla's ridiculous high-speed release process means I was stuck on an unsupported bleeding-edge browser version… or so I thought.