Software Development
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If you got bugs, you’ll get pwned
The SEI recently published some fascinating research which shows a clear relationship between software quality and software security. The consensus…
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Challenging Myself With Coplien’s Why Most Unit Testing is Waste
James O. Coplien has written in 2014 the thought-provoking essay Why Most Unit Testing is Waste and further elaborates the topic…
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Tips for Importing Data
I’m currently importing a large amount of spatial data into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database and realized others could learn from my…
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Development Horror Story – Release Nightmare
Everyone has good stories about releases that went wrong, right? I’m no exception and I have a few good ones…
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Mixing memory unit messages
One of my pet hates is developers messing up units of memory. In general, the difference doesn’t matter much, or…
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Open Source Doesn’t Need More Support. It Needs Better Business Models
Jamie Allen, Typesafe‘s Director of Global Services published an interesting point of view on Twitter: Pivotal’s move to end support…
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About Mixed-Paradigm Languages Such As Java and Python
Intro There are two really popular programming paradigms (yay, alliteration!) out there: functional programming and object-oriented programming. There is another…
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The Internet Is Pseudo-Decentralized
We mostly view the internet as something decentralized and resilient. And from practical point of view, it almost is. The…
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Infinite Loops. Or: Anything that Can Possibly Go Wrong, Does.
A wise man once said: Anything that can possibly go wrong, does – Murphy Some programmers are wise men, thus…
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