This application has failed to start because js3250.dll was not found.

This has been a long known issue with Firefox, and so far it doesn't seem like there is an answer, the error messages are:

"This application has failed to start because js3250.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem."
"The Procedure entry point in JS_HasInstance could not be located in the dynamic link library js3250.dll"

some suggest uninstalling/reinstalling Firefox, creating a new profile, removing FF completely before reinstalling, downloading a new js3250.dll file, deleting a trojan file ipv6monl.dll, etc; some solutions work for some people, some work for others, here's what worked for me

In my case the problem only happened under a restricted (non-admin) user, I looked in the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox folder and the js3250.dll file was there, so I ran the firefox.exe directly from there and it ran ok, then I replaced the shortcut I had to point to that location and it's working so far

hopefully this will help some other soul

My predictions (about Leopard) for next week

- Apple will have their biggest software/hardware (MacPro, MacBookPro & Leopard) sale in history.
- There will be people camping out, waiting to be the first ones to get Leopard.
- They will run out of stock in a few stores.
- Adoption of Macs grows at least 25%.
- Very soon we'll start seeing problems (and updates) in a few applications.
- We'll also see quite a few (a lot?) security problems in the OS and applications for the rest of the year and there after actually

...and I hope to contribute to the cause! =0), and I know quite a few others in the blogosphere will too

small refactoring for working with nullable types

the article applies to: C# 2.0

C# 2.0 brought a new feature: nullable types, you already know they are cool and have been using them for a while, however, how many times have you seen (or written) something like:

//SomeClass.SomeObject.BoolProperty is of type bool?

if (SomeClass.SomeObject.BoolProperty.HasValue && SomeClass.SomeObject.BoolProperty.Value)...
//something

because you can't write:
if (SomeClass.SomeObject.BoolProperty)...

That will not compile

The problem I have with that code is that it is repetitive, and is long, so what can we do?
you can write this instead:

if (SomeClass.SomeObject.BoolProperty??false)

much better, isn't? if BoolProperty has a value and the value is true, it will return true, otherwise it will return false; now, of course you can use the same technique with other types:

string firstName;
public string FirstName { get{ return firstName??""; }}

this code would ensure that FirstName will never be null (I'm pretty sure you've seen lots of "object reference not set blablabla" because of this)

Other examples:
int? result;
...
return result??-1; //if result was not set, return -1
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bool? result;
...
return result??false;
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That's it, hope you find it useful
Remember that the best code, is no code at all