When people learn to develop software, they believe that long hours of concentration and isolation are the best, and maybe unique, way to achieve high quality code. Many think that by working slowly and carefully they may be able to catch most bugs and create a solid base for the program they are creating. This…
There are numerous ways in which you can affect the correctness of the code you write as well as the capabilities of changing that code in the future. Unit testing, design patterns, and code reviews are all methodologies that have a decisive impact in how your software works. However, very few things have such a…
In the last few years, technology companies have started to rely more and more on open source software. From startups to old, established companies such as IBM, everyone is taking the open source revolution as an opportunity to use software that is supported by a world-wide community of programmers. The reality of free software is…