My thoughts on software development
ShareFor the last couple days, I’ve been helping another project team track down a memory leak in their app. Memory leaks always seem to show up at the most inopportune moments, of course, and this one was no exception.
This memory leak, however, was self-inflicted. The source of the memory leak appears to be rooted [...]
ShareA couple years ago, if you read some of the “best practices” stuff coming out of Redmond, you’d have thought that software factories were going to transform software development. Thankfully, this turns out not to have been the case. I never met a software factory I didn’t detest almost immediately, and I’m glad the idea [...]
ShareDouglas Adams, muse to software developers everywhere, had this to say about bugs:
“Just as a slow series of clicks when speeded up will lose the definition of each individual click and gradually take on the quality of a sustained and rising tone, so a series of individual impressions here took on the quality of a [...]
ShareWe have met the enemy, and it is Complexity.
About a year ago, the media was flooded with debate about financial institutions that were deemed “too big to fail” by industry analysts, financial experts, and government representatives. A failure by one of these institutions, these experts told us, would have catastrophic effects on our economy, and [...]
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Rocky Lhotka recently announced another CSLA upgrade. One of the features in this release is support for data annotations that work in both WinForms and SilverLight. Yesterday, Rocky blogged about this implementation (Leveraging data annotation attributes in CSLA .NET).
While this feature is pretty cool all by itself, it’s easy to miss the real [...]
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