The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it…
Category: Legacy
After a horrible afternoon dealing with the Oracle Universal Installer and the Oracle Database Creation Assistant (both of them are serious contenders for the “shitware of the year” 2004 awards), I thought I’d…
One way to improve as a software designer and developer is to read books. Another way is to discuss with peers. And why not discuss with peers about books? So, first of a…
Seemigly innocent statements in the Calendar.getFirstDayOfWeek() Javadoc: Calendar defines a locale-specific seven day week using two parameters: the first day of the week and the minimal days in first week (from 1 to…
I’m currently reading Quality Software Management: First-Order Measurement. The book is very easy to read and introduces a fairly good number of techniques for measuring software quality, but what struck me as something…