In one of the more interesting articles in the Communications of the ACM in recent years, Halderman and a cast of thousands write in the May, 2009, ...
Alert reader Bob Paddock sent a link to Tom DeMarco's article in IEEE Software: "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone". Though ...
If each of our hands had eight fingers, we'd count in hexadecimal and non-geeks wouldn't puzzle over numbers that include the letters A through F. B ...
When I was a teenager my dad ran a help-wanted ad. He was trying to hire an engineer, and in the ad had placed the phrase "this is a great opportuni ...
We had three large black oaks taken down last year. For some time I tried to convince myself that we could fell them but wise wife talked me out of ...
Maybe it was a slow news day then. I was installing a tool chain and actually read the end user license agreement (EULA), always a bad idea unless o ...
Almost a decade ago a number of static analyzers began to appear in the market. A number of such products exist now, including those from Coverity, ...
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