Have you ever seen a bug that disappears when you try to debug it? This situation has a name: heisenbug. A special type of heisenbug happened to me at least twice and recently to a colleague of mine. Different Behaviors These were the symptoms: the p… (read more)
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 code seemed to be executed correctly (debug prints showed what should have been p… (read more)
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 Wikipedia has a good explanatory page. In this post I want to cover… (read more)
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 similar issue has been found recently on Ap… (read more)
Last week my colleague Daniele Veneroni told me: "You chose the wrong timing to write a post about the usefulness of goto. Have you heard what happened to Apple?" To make it short, there was a vulnerability into the validation of SSL/TLS connection… (read more)