The other day I finally came up with the problem and solution to a sporadic bug that had been appearing in our main application at work for a couple of weeks and driving me absolutely nuts. This was one of those bugs that if anyone asked you what was causing it you could swear on your life without flinching that it was un-reproducible, so what was it and how did I fix it?
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Mach-II 1.1.0 CF is now out. I’m guessing that most of the Mach-II community knows about this by now as even though they don’t seem too keen on shouting about things over at the official Mach-II site nearly everyone in the community has mentioned it.

I’ve not had time to look at it properly yet, but I’m definitely going to make time over the next couple of weeks to begin implementing it in our applications at work. This basically means cleaning up some of the cruft, but I want to implement it because of the following features:
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I have a fairly long driving commute to work, about an hour and a quarter in the morning and an hour in the evening, so having a large MP3 player has been a godsend over the past couple of years.

I’ve tried a few pod casts in the past but haven’t found anything that has taken my fancy. As a regular reader of writings by Hal Helms my ears plucked up when he mentioned that he was starting a pod cast of chats with Jeff Peters about software and web development.
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