Design flaws, defects, and faults
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Blog: Glaskowsky explains the difference between design flaws and defects.
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The chipmaker appears to have put its major problems in the rearview mirror. Plus: Intel's mobile Linux project.
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Things get terse When I was young I built up a collection of system error messages. Ok, look, it's not as sad as collecting stamps! It is? Really? Oh well, never mind. Anyway, my recent piece about Borland putting rude words in Quattro Pro got me thinking it was time to revisit that collection.â¦
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Compuware on Tuesday will announce tools providing fault simulation and security analysis for developers building applications on the Microsoft platform.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.
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Feature Consolidation runs and runs
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Chapter 14: Kernel Debugging Techniques, reprinted with permission from Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach By Christopher Hallinan, Published by Prentice Hall
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It reads like a VIP list of failures â-ewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Intel, and Philips. Each of these technology powerhouses tried to conquer a promising technology
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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On the Mark: The blame game within IT can slow the resolution of problems reported by end users. But there are tools that can put a stop to all the finger-pointing, Mark Hall writes.
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An introduction to using refactoring, unit testing and ZenTest on existing code.
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php|architect has a new note about a few PHP vulnerabilities:
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On the SitePoint PHP Blog today Troels Knak-Nielsen asks th3e question "what's so bad about the singleton?" For all of its advantages, is there a darker side of the design pattern when it pertains to global variables.   As I have often taken this stance myself, I found it reasonable that I should be able to argue for it, so I'll try to give an explanation. This is also in part a follow-up on my post from last week, in which I present a way to avoid global symbols, without spending much time on why.   He talks about what they are and how they're commonly used - sometimes with some unpleasant side effects because of their use of globals.
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The so-called $100 laptop that's being designed
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Previously satisfied users say the newest release of the software is causing a variety of problems, including an issue where the software won't load at startup. Microsoft says it is looking into at least one issue, but said overall the number of problems
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A set of newly discovered flaws in components of VMware Inc.&#39;s virtual machine software has called attention to some of the security risks associated with the practice of running virtual computers on a single system.
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How far is too far when it comes to the freedom of software? Plus: Palm slipping, Windows sliding.
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From PHP Planet today, there's a note on Marcus White's weblog stating that: you cannot prove anything by testing. No matter how hard you try, there could always be something wrong, or some combination of conditions or some external event that you havenÃ¢ÂÂt thought of. You never know absolutely for sure that your project is working correctly and you never will.