Category: bugs
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Chaining IF and && with CMD
An interesting bug cropped up the other day in a dub configuration file which made me realise I wasn’t consciously aware of the precedence of && when used in an IF statement with cmd.exe. Batch File Idioms I’ve written a ton of batch files ov…
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Chaining IF and && with CMD
An interesting bug cropped up the other day in a dub configuration file which made me realise I wasn’t consciously aware of the precedence of && when used in an IF statement with cmd.exe. Batch File Idioms I’ve written a ton of batch files ov…
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Fast Hardware Hides Many Sins
Way back at the beginning of my professional programming career I worked for a small software house that wrote graphics software. Although it had a desktop publisher and line-art based graphics package in its suite it didn’t have a bitmap editor and so…
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Fast Hardware Hides Many Sins
Way back at the beginning of my professional programming career I worked for a small software house that wrote graphics software. Although it had a desktop publisher and line-art based graphics package in its suite it didn’t have a bitmap editor and so…
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PowerShell’s Call Operator (&) Arguments with Embedded Spaces and Quotes
I was recently upgrading a PowerShell script that used the v2 nunit-console runner to use the v3 one instead when I ran across a weird issue with PowerShell. I’ve haven’t found a definitive bug report or release note yet to describe the change in behav…
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PowerShell’s Call Operator (&) Arguments with Embedded Spaces and Quotes
I was recently upgrading a PowerShell script that used the v2 nunit-console runner to use the v3 one instead when I ran across a weird issue with PowerShell. I’ve haven’t found a definitive bug report or release note yet to describe the change in behav…