bugs

When does a bug become a feature request?

When does a non-critical bug become a feature or should a bug always remain as a bug? For example, should there be a statute of limitations in place. For example, if you have a defined statute of 1 year. The bug was introduced over 18 months ago, but only noticed today. Should that bug be defined as "this is now how the system works"...

DateTime.ToString("h") causes exception!

Open a watch window new DateTime(2010,01,01).ToString("h") Gives: new DateTime(2010,01,01).ToString("h") threw an exception of type System.FormatException Yet... new DateTime(2010,01,01).ToString("h ") Gives: "12 " So why does an extra space stop this format exception from happening? Is this a bug? ...

Web App Tracing/Debugging

Hi, Can people pls suggest any open source tools that can be used to trace/monitor a persons web activity inorder to determine any code issues for a particular web app? Basically, I have a web app that I have developed and some users are experiencing page stalls and was wondering on what the best way to track down these issues? Thanks...

IE7 z-index issue

Ive read a handful of articles about z-index issues in IE7. Tried applying a handful of them but nothing seems to work. Check it http://etomco.com/beals/ Firefox looks great and works great. IE7 the image of the Teacher (scroll a little bit) is not clickable. Im floating a over the graphic because i dont feel like cuttin up all the im...

Amusing Ways to Abuse IE's Rendering

It's really no secret to anyone who has done some web design that Internet Explorer does some funky things with rendering. There's probably lots of examples of weird bugs and workarounds out there, but I'm curious about something slightly different. Instead of bugs that people have to hack around, what bugs have you run into that can act...

Visual Studio 2008 (Color Picker Bug?)

On my properties window, on the color type properties, the color picker "Custom, Web, System" is not showing. Only the names of colors are showing. It's a bug? How can I fix that? Ps: Sorry my english. ...

A bug in rails? About model inherited.

My env: ruby-1.9.2-preview3; rails-3.0.0.beta3 class PostFather < ActiveRecord::Base def self.inherited(subclass) end end class Post < PostFather end In the console: > Post.new # => TypeError: can't dup NilClass > Post.all # => TypeError: can't dup NilClass > Post.scoped # => TypeError: can't dup NilClass You can try ...

Aware of img tags with empty src in Chrome

Hello, As I figured out, Chrome do not ignore empty src, but loading currently viewed file into it. I had statistics counting error because of this "feature". Create file.php with this code... <? $fp = fopen("log", "a+"); fwrite($fp, time()."\"); fclose($fp); ?> <h1>Here is my page...</h1> <img src="" /> <img src="" /> ..and t...

IE Preload Images Bug?

Okay, so I'm calling images from a sprite for my image slider. What happens is that when a page is loaded, all slideshow images are displayed horizontaly thus making it appear bugged. A solution we worked out was to set images to preload. It works fine in Firefox, but in IE it appears bugged. Here are the two lines of code that matter (w...

How can I force WebKit to redraw/repaint to propagate style changes?

I have some trivial JavaScript to effect a style change: sel = document.getElementById('my_id'); sel.className = sel.className.replace(/item-[1-9]-selected/,'item-1-selected'); return false; This works fine with the latest versions of FF, Opera and IE, but fails on the latest versions of Chrome and Safari. It affects two descendants,...

An instance of - "It is a feature not a bug"?

Well, I cannot recall any instance of this quote "It is a feature not a bug". I want to know about any incident where a bug has been presented as feature. Can anyone enlighten me about this? ...

A bug in JavaScript...

Dear all, I have trouble to figure out a bug in javascript. It sounds so simple though to debug, but I could not find out. It tells me a runtime error has occured ...Expected')' here is the code: <xsl:for-each select="./projects/project"> <script LANGUAGE='Javascript'> x = 0; if(x==...

IE png with jquery and css question

function fadehomepage() { //Set opacity to 0 $('#showcase_home > div > a').css({'opacity':'0'}); $('#showcase_home > div').hover( function () { var selected_div = $(this).attr("class") + "_hover"; $(this).find('.' + selected_div).stop().fadeTo(...

Using Launchpad "Bugs" (aka Malone) standalone - HOW?

I'm setting up a problem tracking system for a client and I'd like to use Malone to do it. The system has be be completely private, so I can't simply buy space on launchpad.net and ignore all the other parts of the Launchpad Suite - I need to download the software and install it elsewhere. I've seen https://dev.launchpad.net/Getting so...

Why is generated override code for generic method incorrect?

I have an abstract generic class public abstract class Foo<TType> with an abstract method public abstract object DoSomething(TType arg = default(TType)) {} Now, the inherited class public class BabyFoo : Foo<string> when I want to override DoSomething and start typing "override " to get the intellisense/generator to write a meth...

How to configure Mantis so that an administrator is notified of all issues in the system

I want to setup Mantis in a way that it sends all notifications email to the administrator, even if the administrator is not assigned or monitoring a particular project. The administrator should get all the emails for all the activity occurring in the system. I tried to configure the Mantis' Email Notifications screen, but I fail to und...

Visual studio 2010 connects all databases in Server Explorer when opening a solution

Hi to all ! Basicly, I think the title of the post here says it all. I am working with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate 10.0.30319.1 RTMRel. EDIT: I am running Windows 7 x64. Everytime I open a solution it tries to connect to all databases present in Server Explorer. My problem is that some of them are not always available over internet so...

Sun Java HTTPServer has a bug, how to fix it?

I'm using com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer in my project. However, it seems that the server leaks connections when it gets invalid data from the HTTP connection. The bug is this one: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do;jsessionid=dfe841c3152d878571573bafceb8?bug_id=6946825 Now, this is reported to be fixed in version "7(b94)" - however, w...

Perfectly good PHP/MySQL Login script not working

Hey guys, I've been bashing my head around for hours now, over this login script. It's the one I always used, and I know it works on my version of MySQL. It just won't send me through to the correct authorized page, it will always redirect to the "login_failed.php" file. Any help is much appreciated. <?php ob_start(); $host="localhost"...

Firefox bug - dynamic input element

Bug: http://www.chubbyfish.co.uk/bug.html I'm dynamically creating the 3rd input field, and then adding a value to it (of "input 3 value"). Refresh the page several times and you'll see input4 and input5 get filled up with the same value. Why? Any ideas?! If you can fix it I'll buy you a luxury yacht and a new house! ...