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The post you're reading is ancient, and yet slightly inexplicably popular :) I've recently started blogging again in 2020 with some fresh content. Check out some of the new topics about blogging again, dynamic method invocation, and aapt2.I recently installed Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5) on a new mac. There are a few factory settings I usually change on a new installation, although by far fewer than I do typically with Windows. One of them is the default keyboard configuration for Ctrl+Left Arrow, Ctrl+Right Arrow, Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End in Terminal. The default settings drive me a bit potty since I'm used to using Linux and emacs every day at work.Changing them is easy, fortunately. Just visit Keyboard under Settings in Terminal->Preferences, and modify the following keys, so that their action matches the value shown. You can edit the keystroke for an item by double clicking on it, selecting "send string to shell", and typing the indicated keys.KeyActio…

Recently, our bug tracking system started receiving reports of a ConcurrentModificationException. The API in question was only ever supposed to be used on one thread, and yet a caller somewhere was making modifications on a background thread.One thing that makes it tricky to diagnose this kind of problem is that a ConcurrentModificationException thrown during iteration only tells you that a concurrent modification was detected. But no information is present in the stack trace about where the rogue write actually happened. Wouldn't it be nice to have something like this? java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.checkForComodification(AbstractList.java:372) ... Caused by: java.lang.Throwable: List modified at ... at org.foo.SomeRogueCaller.writeOnTheWrongThread(SomeRogueCaller.java:30) It's pretty easy to do this using the decorator pattern. The basic idea is to write a decorator for java.util.List that records a stack trace when modificat…