String.format in Java has weird rounding by default

I was participating in one of our Android projects, and while testing I discovered, that our program acted weird — app displayed one value, but acted like the value was different. The value was 1.45, and our Java Android app displayed 1.4 instead of 1.5. The source looked something like: double d = 1.45; String …

PowerShell in Unicode, Windows 8 RP and Windows Server 2012 RC

I was testing our software with latest version of Microsoft Windows — Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (Windows Server 2012 RC Datacenter). There was some changed behavior in very specific cases for some rarely used Windows API. I also found some race conditions, that showed up in Windows 8, but …

Visual Studio Form Editor: To prevent possible data loss before loading the designer, the following errors must be resolved

This is not the first time. I have seen this error message in the past (probably multiple times), and every time I look to this error and I do not understand, why it appeared and how to fix it. I read the text, projects not referenced, projects have been built… wait… yes, projects must be …