Software Development
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Choosing a Programming Language
What programming language to use is probably the single biggest technical decision facing a project. That one decision, affects every…
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How to increase donations to an open source project
Lots of open source projects raise money from their user communities by soliciting donations. Most open source projects will have…
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Does Defensive Programming Deserve Such a Bad Name?
The other day I went to an hour’s talk on erlang, merely as an observer; I know nothing about erlang…
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Penetration Testing Shouldn’t be a Waste of Time
In a recent post on “Debunking Myths: Penetration Testing is a Waste of Time”, Rohit Sethi looks at some of…
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The three greatest paragraphs ever written on encapsulation
Definition. Encapsulation isn’t sexy. It’s the chartered accounting of software design. Functional Java programming? Formula freakin’ one. Hybrid cloud computing?…
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War Games, Pair Testing and Other Fun Ways to Find Bugs
I’ve already examined how important good testing is to the health of a project, a product and an organization. There’s…
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How to Design a Good, Regular API
People have strong opinions on how to design a good API. Consequently, there are lots of pages and books in…
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Augmenting 3rd-Party Libraries
For every project I’ve participated in, there has been a need for augmenting some third-party library. A couple of reasons:…
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Lies, statistics and vendors
Overview Reading performance results supplied by vendors is a skill in itself. It can be difficult to compare numbers…
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