Topic: Debugging

Debugging can be a pain in the arse. Specifically, when you are using a standard language, or API, like Java, and suddenly, a hard to identify
change in context breaks things up.

For example, my banner applets, at www.beyondwonderland.com, worked like a charm in IE for a while, until my site went off for a couple of weeks.
When it was back, the banner applets had ceased to work.

It turns out that when using 120dpi fonts on Windows, the image resolution, at least for jpegs, is altered over http/ftp transfers, and that's what
was causing me to upload images with a wrong resolution to my website, therefore causing my fixed size banners to crash.
At 120dpi for Windows fonts, Opera and Firefox keep working normally, they won't impact the display of an applet because of a font resolution.
IE will.

So the bug it took me some time to spot had nothing to do with code correctness.

Anyway.
I am now trying to spot two issues:
- in the past, some Firefox had problems with my banner applets, and tended to freeze from times to times.
- due to the images having been correctly uploaded to my site, the 120dpi bug should not occur again. "should".... I would like to make sure it does not.

So, please, please, please, if you are using Moz on a Win2k, or any other system, test away. If you are using IE and have a high resolution screen, test away.
And let me know.

www.beyondwonderland.com
www.beyondwonderland.com?color=pink

And another skin.. http://www.beyondwonderland.com/?color=black

I'll keep the banners, and will revamp the rest. Sometime. ..

I use Firefox on Win2k on two machines, one has firefox 1.0.7 on which everything looks great, expecially the black, I thought the pink would look a lot better with a different image its sorta boring :P a fractal tile image would look cool imo. On the other machine firefox 1.5 (very latest, not beta) doesnt show the applets(any color), that said neither do any flash movies, i think the new version has major plugin problems or something. Java is up to date on both machines. As I havent seen any mention of this around the web Im guessing now its a win2k+firefox problem.

Just wanted to add, I dont lurk here half as much as I used to , if you need testing on either machine give me an email: brainworms a t g m ail .com

First PC: AMD IE Firefox 1.07 win2k 1600x1200
Second: Xeon IE Firefox 1.5 win2k 1280x1024

P.s Also glad to see an update :P I didnt think there would be any after you "left" etc..

Well, thankyous. The Moz bug I mentionned has disappeared somewhere in the course of FF and Java plugin upgrades. Oh joy.
This said, I am glad you enjoy it, I have defects, I have qualities, and among qualities, I have perseverance in things I like to do.
Who said "no matter how far you've walked the wrong road.."?
Well, you get the point.

More better updates will come: as school progresses, I learn a lot about software design processes, programming languages (perl, php, lisp, c++, c, java, tcl/tk, shell and dos batch scripts, Visual Basic even, xml, uml,
we've realized or are realizing small projects in all those languages), maths, algorithmy, heuristics, genetic algorithmy, ai... which fills in the gaps left by learning on my own.

So I basically have stuff up my sleve.
But I don't have a lot of time for private projects, so the only thing I can't settle is "when will I release the goodies?".
Sometime.