General Failure
Google Advertising failure
Article text in german only, sorry – taken from this article in the Heise newsticker, I’d like to present a case of general failure when it comes to online advertising:
Article-Ad-Fail
If you are lucky, you can see this – just go to the source. :)
HTML forms: field naming
Never do this:
<form name="form_xy" action="" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="submit" value="whatever" />
</form>
or this here will cause errors:
document.form_xy.submit();
The hidden input’s name “submit” results in a “form_xy.submit is not a function” error. Gnah. (Guess how long it took me to find this error) :P
SVN fubar
Trying to merge a branch back into the trunk, I’ve been getting this:
Merge operation failed.
RA layer request failed
svn: REPORT of '/svn/xyz/!svn/bc/9110/branches/whatever-module/my_cool_branch/whatever-module': Could not read chunk size: Secure connection truncated (https://www.failhost.com)
for days and days from both Eclipse/Subversive and Tortoise (Tortoise provided a slightly different error message, but it was essentially the same). Suck… Becoming convinced that this is a permanent error and being not very interested (to say the least) to file a support request with our customer about that issue, I resorted to command-line SVN – motivated by pure frustration and the intent to give it one last try – and say what? It worked. Painless.
$ svn co trunkURL
$ cd workingCopy
$ svn merge -r 9059:HEAD branchURL
$ svn ci
<enter message and GO>
$ mv sophisticatedTools /dev/null
I suppose that this might have been a double tool fail, look at the error message: maybe the tool(s) attempted to get revision 9110 of the branch which does not exist, maybe something else – I don’t care too much – I tried several combinations of options (normal merge vs. reintegrate in Subclipse etc.) – it did not work – I ran the errors through Google several times – didn’t find any hints except some Apache DAV module memory leak voodoo – I think I’ll simply ALWAYS use the command line client for merging in the future. EOF.
Lego Star Wars – The Crash Of The System
Yesterday, I found a secret chapter in “Lego Star Wars – The Complete Saga” on XBOX360. It’s called “The Crash Of The System” and it is not reachable by intent. Today, during freeplay of episode III, level 1, I found myself holding a controller that wouldn’t stop vibrating, and I saw the following image on screen:
Lego Star Wars TCS (''The Crash Of The System'')
Okay, frozen game, or even frozen Xbox – whatever. Sucks, but who cares. About a second later, my girlfriend, half-asleep, said “wow, that’s a nice high score you got there” with that ironic sound in her voice. I looked again, and I saw it: 1.057.048.958 studs! :D Anyone who can tell me which data type’s max_value this is, will get a free beer. (I don’t know, it has to be something Xbox specific because usual 32-bit primitives have different min/max values)
With this pretty good laugh (although the crashing game is annoying) I’m calling it a day – have a good night :-)
JIRA localization fail
I’d say that it’s nice to have localized software, but if multi-language pages fail, it might look like this:
JIRA error screen
Slightly nasty :-)
Technorati fail
Just a small failure at Technorati, but with a funny error screen entitled “Technorati is experiencing unusually high load right now!!”:
Technorati error screen
Please note that this stuff is intellectual property of Technorati. I only stole its soul by taking a virtual photograph. :-)
