Software Development
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Don’t Blame Bad Software on Developers – Blame it on their Managers
There’s a lot of bad software out there. Unreliable, insecure, unsafe and unusable. It’s become so bad that some people…
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Build your own robot arm – remote control
In previous installment of this micro series, I discussed the way to control all the servos at once. Programmatically without…
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Postgres indexes
Recently, I had a situation where I needed to think how I was using Postgres indexes. I had a simple…
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The Real Success Story of Microservices Architectures
We hear the benefits of microservices architectures loud and clear; we hear the constant drum beat of how/why/by all means/etc…
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R: Wimbledon – How do the seeds get on?
Continuing on with the Wimbledon data set I’ve been playing with I wanted to do some exploration on how the…
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Wikipedia’s Definition of a Software Bug Is Wrong
Here is what Wikipedia says at the time of this writing: A software bug is an error, flaw, failure, or…
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Good Programmers Write Bug-Free Code, Don’t They?
Good programmers create fewer bugs while bad programmers cause more. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? However, there is a lot of…
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MySQL vs. MongoDB: Choosing a Data Management Solution
Table Of Contents 1. Introduction 2. The dominance of RDBM systems 3. A new era of NoSQL movement 4. Tables…
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A Few Valid Reasons to Reject a Bug Fix
A bug exists when something doesn’t work as expected. A bug fix is basically a patch (a pull request) to…
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