Tihy
On code quality: a small quality fix with every bug fix
Thoughts about job interviews
Too many passwords
Small experiment
What is this “crisis”?
Creating HTML using tree structures
Eiffel goodies for Pascal programmers
Enterprise application development, reinventing the wheel
How to shoot yourself in the foot
Exceptions or return codes?
The doomsday argument
Read your code
Symptoms of rotting design
Allow Multiple Remote Desktop Connections on Vista
Companies as persons
http://blog.tetrack.com/2009/01/companies-as-persons/
It’s no news that there have been a lot of layoffs in the IT industry lately. And there are more to come, I expect, because layoffs are supposed to have a positive economic impact for the company (which is higly desired in stormy economic times). But layoffs also come with a big price tag: they leave behing a cloud of doubt, lack of trust and uncertainty over the remaining employees.
On code quality: rewrite once
http://blog.tetrack.com/2009/01/on-code-quality-rewrite-once/
All you have to do is delete your first implementation and rewrite all the code from scratch. The main reason for this is that you can focus on code quality without being constrained by the existing implementation.
Is Yahoo Messenger free? Guess again
http://blog.tetrack.com/2009/01/is-yahoo-messenger-free-guess-again/
I guess many of you know how much time it takes for this software to start, how much memory it uses and so on. However lately I discovered a more disturbing thing: it also eats POWER. Yes you heard me electric power.