There are few reasons to have your code log extensive error/debug messages. One of them is to help with debugging issues on a remote (or worse, production) environment. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of this kind of logging: Log Actual Values With a well placed log message you will be able to easily pinpoint the line of code where the problem occurred. Now you’re left staring at that line of code and trying to guess what caused the error.…

The good: Leonardo DiCaprio is “star power” defined. Holding the movie up in the air all by himself. Even though, a hint of one-sidedness is noticeable (Danny Archer from “Blood Diamond”, Billy Costigan from “The Departed” and Roger Ferris from “Body of Lies” are all the same guy, really). The bad: Alon Abutbul is the ultimate in Israeli terrorist-portraying technology. Comic relief: Simon McBurney as the one-man-show homosexual secret black-ops branch of the CIA run out of the woods (the C-I-Gay).…

The FIFA ranking system is used to determine the seeding of national teams for various international competitions. It is considered absolutely broken by every football fan. For example, the Israeli national team is currently ranked 15th(1) in the world, while Sweden, for example, is only 29th. Enough said. I decided to look into the method used by FIFA to determine the rankings, in order to understand why the system is so obviously broken and whether it can be fixed.…

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Yes, forgot to mention, I can now be seen pimping my writing to Israel’s leading online restaurants site, rest.co.il. (Hebrew only) Some examples are here and here.…

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Being a long-time and proud member of the “Russian Jews United” group on Facebook, I have found the following message waiting in my inbox today: Single? Need a fresh start? Try: http://www.rajeusa.com/rajemate/survey.php Nice service for nice people. Gary Linkov Well, Gary, I don’t believe we’ve met, but that’s really…nice. Thank you. “I am single! I do need a fresh start!”, I thought. Nice people?? That is me!! With thoughts of beautiful Jewish girls with rich daddies, I immediately clicked on the link and landed on the “RAJE” homepage:…

Flixwagon is bloody cool! Allows to broadcast video directly from your iPhone. The moment you tap “stop” on the iPhone it’s up on the web. Killer.…

The Chinese team dominated the 2008 Olympic Games, winning 51 gold medals, 15 more than second-placed USA. But the Chinese are not the only ones celebrating. Great Britain finished 4th in the medal count, winning 26 total medals, 11 of which gold. This is the best achievement by the British team since 1912. Impressive. I’ve decided to find out how exactly did they do in the 1912 Olympics, held in Stockholm, and found out some very interesting stuff.…

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