I do not like debugging. I prefer good logging. The log4j manual quotes Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike from their “truly excellent book” The Practice of Programming: As personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a stack trace or the value of a variable or two....

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From the same site as the all-CSS box shadow comes a summary of the test results of IE6, Mozilla 1.5 and Opera 7.21 running through Eric Meyer’s CSS2 test suite. I also really liked this hint from their archives:

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Iiiinteresting. In my last post on Friday, I inserted <del> tags around the first two paragraphs, because they were wrong. This should a) make the text italic and b) draw a line through it, and indeed in Win/IE it does, but not Firebird. Now why’s that I wonder? My CSS looks like this:

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