I believe every developer has been in a situation where the software behaves in a way that just cannot be.  Every developer has applied fixes that do not make sense and he had no idea how they worked. Recently I came across the most brutal version of "cannot be" I had ever encountered while working on software...

   As a devoted StarCraft fan I happen to know a bit more about South Korea than the regular European. One of the things I know is that it is very high-tech country. This is why I was surprised to find out that 22% of the Internet users in South Korea today use Internet Explorer 6. This is really big number second only to China. How come this tech savvy nation ends up with such a big usage share of this outdated browser?

   Two years have passed and since I shared my impressions of Internet Explorer 8 and once again it is time for me to review the latest version of the browser that no web developer can ignore but many would like to...

   Before I unveil the atrocities of the String class in Java we are going to do a simple test. In order to get the most accurate results from the test you should try to do it as if it was a normal task at work. By the very fact that you know this is a test you will probably not do it like it is a normal task at work but at least try not to read the source code of the Java methods you are going to call. So here is the task – Write a method that given a string replaces all the occurrences of the substring "…" with the string ",,,". For example given the input " a.,...b...c." the method should return "a.,,,,b,,,c."...

   You have probably read the news about Google accusing Microsoft of stealing their search results. The reaction of Microsoft moved in the whole range from not denying to accusing Google of click fraud. Undoubtedly the whole Internet population eagerly awaits my verdict on this case.