development Optimization Heisenbug Have you ever seen a bug that disappears when you try to debug it? This situation has a name: heisenbug[1]. A special type of heisenbug happened to me at least twice and
solved [Solved] The Strangest Bug I've Ever Seen I've spent two hours to find it and two seconds for the fix. There was this gigantic piece of C code to create a report by putting together data from several files. The
management You Need A Bug Tracker For some years I've worked without the support of any bug tracking system (BT for short) but now it's hard to do without. I think that its standard usage is clear enough, otherwise
security Has Open Source Failed? This week has been pretty embarrassing for GNU/Linux estimators. According to ArsTechnica a bug has been found on the GnuTLS library. Basically the authenticity of SSL/TLS certificates was not granted (a
C Indentation Matters Last week my colleague Daniele Veneroni[1] told me: "You chose the wrong timing to write a post about the usefulness of goto. Have you heard what happened to Apple?" To