The Programmer's Paradox

If you collect some data with respect to a specific context, when there are significant changes in that context, the original data no longer...

Decades ago, our project had a convention where we never directly used ANSI C primitive types, unless it was trivial in a loop. But for any ...

Back in the eighties, when I was a student, there were only two choices: you used ‘vi’ or you used ‘emacs’. I picked vi, my roommate picked ...

The most common mistake I have seen in big ugly balls of mud is to try to capture data without enough structure. Chopping up some incoming d...

I use the term ‘software system’ loosely. I usually intend it to mean: all of the boundaries for a set of related solutions that have been o...