Bugs

I've been told that I have a special talent, but I think I'm just cursed: every single time I try a new software, within the first hours (or even minutes) of using it, I find a bug.

Below is a list of the bugs I've reported over the years, mostly for my own reference. Some links are to patches I submitted.

• Perl and various modules:
  • Array::Compare
  • Catalyst::Action::REST
  • Catalyst::Action::Serialize::XML::Simple
  • Catalyst::Devel
  • Catalyst::Helper::Model::DBIC::Schema (patch)
  • Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader
  • Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple
  • Catalyst::Runtime
  • Catalyst::Test
  • Config::JFDI
  • CPAN::SQLite
  • Data::ID::Exim
  • DateTime
  • DateTime::Format::Duration
  • DBIx::Class: producer type
  • DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn
  • Email::Simple
  • ExtUtils::MakeMaker: prompt broken on Windows, w/ patch
  • HTML::FormFu
  • HTML::GenToc
  • HTML::Toc
  • HTML::Tree
  • HTML::WikiConverter::Markdown - 1, 2, 3, 4
  • JSON::Converter
  • KiokuDB - POD update
  • KiokuDB::Backend::DBI - test warnings, entries.data as TEXT
  • Math::Int2base
  • POD::HTML
  • Pod::ProjectDocs
  • SQL::Translator: PostgreSQL timestamp, sqlite_version lost, SQLFairy: writable views
  • Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate::BaseTest
  • RTF::Writer
  • Template::Toolkit: numification vs. stringification, localized filters
  • Test::Builder
  • Test::WWW::Mechanize - fails on Windows again
  • URI::Escape::XS path loss
  • XML::LibXSLT
  • XML::Twig - credits; bugs: subs_text & entities, CDATA buffer overflow, comments at EOF, fake elements in XPath, get_xpath hangs
  • Win32::GUI
  • WWW::Mechanize
  • WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder
  • YAML::Syck etc.
• Aptana
• ActiveState Komodo IDE
• Beyond Compare 3
• Bonita - the open source workflow project - use UTF8 damnit, auto-wrap, editable description
• CodeMirror (JavaScript-based source code editor)
• Compare It!
• DeltaCopy (Windows port of rsync)
• dmake
• the dojo JavaScript toolkit
• Eclipse
  • EPIC - Eclipse Perl Integration: hash keys named as Perl keywords, Strawberry Perl toggle breakpoints
  • http4E - GUI client for making HTTP calls from Eclipse and outputting the corresponding Java code
  • soapUI plugin - Ctrl+X/C/V don't work, and neither do Ctrl/Shift+Ins/Del
• Filezilla
• Firebug
• Firefox
• Foswiki
• gallery2
• jQuery: .ajax({jsonp:...}), REST-style JSONP callback option, automatic src timestamping
  • Jeditable Edit in place plugin for jQuery: HTML entities should be unescaped, no editability indication
• the lighttpd web server
• Apache log4j
• Midnight Commander
• MySQL
• Necromancer's Dos Navigator (NDN)
• the nginx web server
• Notepad++: %APPDATA% web site error
• Opera
• PHP
• the Pidgin open-source IM client
• Selenium web application testing framework
• Sysinternal's Process Explorer
• TWiki
• XShell: 1, 2, 3
• The KMPlayer
• ViPlay
• Winamp
• WinSCP - dual-pane Windows SCP and SFTP client
• Wireshark
• XnView
• ZABBIX monitoring
• ZOC terminal emulator; forum posts (mostly bug reports; search requires login to return all results)
• BSPlay, DPEG, IrfanView, Mp3 Direct Cut, Pegasus, TamoSoft Essential NetTools, Web2Pop
• AWK, Delphi, Turbo and Borland Pascal and C
• the TMX 1.4b specification and even RFC 2047.
• Android - itself (esp. repeatedly escalating (on Twitter too) the unlock pattern security risk) and applications
  • IRC Radio
  • Market Enabler
  • Navit
• Numerous high-profile web applications:
  • Gmail
  • GitHub - social coding
  • Tender Support - issue tracking, used by GitHub to track its own issues
  • MarketWatch
  • 43things.com et. al - social goal tracking
  • delicious.com - social bookmarking
  • gdgt.com
  • LiveStrong (formerly TheDailyPlate): 1
  • Wadja (mobile social networking): daily quota, emoticons, "recieve", line-height, API FAIL, GET API
  • Fotki.com - photo sharing
  • Intrade - prediction market
  • ohloh.net social coding - tooltips, tags UI
  • 23hq.com - photo sharing
  • Wikipedia/MediaWiki
  • QuestionPro/IdeaScale - customer feedback management
  • Waze - crowdsourced live traffic and maps
  • CPAN's RT system

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