… at least that's what Mr. David Gristwood says in this (otherwise excellent) entry ('21 Rules of Thumb - How Microsoft develops its Software') on his MSDN weblog. Davis thinks that :
Even discounting the added development burden, with the addition of each additional platform the job of QA increases substantially. While clever QA management can [...]
If you haven't had the opportunity to work on a really big project, naming is probably not on your top list of programming best practices. And you are certainly going to regret that when your project grows.
Of course, everybody, including good old Scott, knows that CUST signifies CUSTOMER and DEPT signifies DEPARTMENT. And statistically speaking, [...]
Very very busy lately, but I'd like to share some knowledge about a few useful Java OSS gems that were not easy to find. Mr. Google, please 'index this':
1. Aspirin is a self-contained SMTP server (send only) written in Java, open-sourced and free. It simplifies configuration and deployment by allowing your app server to send [...]
NOTE : unfortunately, this trick is again unavailable starting with Eclipsev3M9, the last version which made that possible was v3M8
In Eclipse 3.0, in the CVS repository properties it is possible to separate the 'read' and 'write' access locations (see picture). AFAIK, this feature was meant for developers using extssh for CVS connection. They would use [...]