Tag Archives: DrDobbs

Bug Opportunity Levels

A few days ago I read an article on Dr. Dobbs written by Peter Eastman. Eastman describes a concept of bug opportunities in bodies of code. He divides the bug opportunity into a set of levels, creating a simple taxonomy for bug opportunity classification: There is no opportunity to make a mistake If there is [...]

Google vs. Spam

I have since the start up of my company, had my mail hosted with one of my friends. This has worked magnificently. But I started considering moving to Google Apps, due to the amount of spam received and my friends (understandable) lack of time to keep the spam filters up to date (he is a [...]

Are You Immune to Test Infection, no but I am busy

I just received the physical edition of Dr. Dobbs, just in time for the weekend. This meant I actually could take time to read some of it. I fell over one of the first articles and dug in, I skipped the editorial. I have however come to enjoy editorials since they sometimes are good at [...]

Why Programming Is Fun

In the last issue of Dr. Dobbs, there was an article entitled Why Programming is Fun, the article is a spin of from a blog entry by the author at: http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/archive/2006/08/19/26828.aspx I can agree with most of the things he mention, then again some of the aspects are of no interest to me – and [...]