Just jotting this down for anyone that might encounter this problem.

Apparently Groovy 1.8 introduced a backwards-incompatible language syntax change. It cropped up for me while I was attempting to compile existing Groovy unit tests (written against Groovy 1.7.x) that use EasyMock. I’ll show an example next – just note that that what I experienced [...]

I thought this was rather amusing. When viewing a web server directory listing (in this case, the Maven Central repository), Chrome thought it was Italian. Seems like their language detection stuff isn’t quite fully fleshed out yet:

To be fair, it’s just a directory listing, and I bet my request was served from [...]

I’d like your thoughts on a moral dilemma I encountered last night in San Francisco. Here’s the story:

On my way in to an In-n-Out Burger to grab a quick bite, there was a homeless guy in his mid-twenties sitting in front of the door with his scrawny-but-cute dog. He asked, “Could you please [...]