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I was amused by Daniel's post on his sudden usage of that well known class StringBugger, which, few actually know is a derived class for StringBuffer.  I have found myself in a similar situation the other week.  I had coded up a class and asked a colleague to take a look over it.  He was amused to see it had 'shit' all over it.  Confused I looked at what he was talking about.

I had a simple counter variable to track the number of sessions in the class; i called it 'sHits'.  Completely flew over my head at the time, never twigged!  I am now paying a lot more attention to my variable names!

Daniel if you are reading this, i tried to leave a comment on your blog, but JRoller crapped out on me with a huge stack trace detailing; java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/MessagingException. Own up, who stole the mail.jar file from the classpath!?!?!   Can they please put it back, for the sake of the JRoller bloggers.