I love Microsoft. Their Visual Studio is where I spend much of my day, and it is fantastic. Unlike some tech giants of the past,
Tag: Best Practices
A Developer’s Checklist
A few weeks ago, I did a root-cause analysis of the defects we fixed in a recent release of our software. The last few posts
How to Avoid Defects in Caching
This post is a mea culpa. I’ve always believed that a software team must be led by someone who still knows how to code and
I Promise You Will Have Bugs
Even when we were happily married, my wife and I used to marvel that any marriages manage to make it until “death do us part,”
How to Avoid Performance Bugs
Suppose your application works but is just slow. Is that a bug? I suggest that if it is slow enough that your users will dislike
How to Avoid the Surprises in Third-Party Components
Six percent of the defects we found in a recent release of my company’s software were directly attributable to documented but surprising behavior in third-party