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John Henry the Maintenance Programmer
Thanks to Bulkan Evcimen for tweeting about an article I doubt I would have found otherwise: “A Genetic Programming Approach to Automated Software Repair” (pdf link here), by Stephanie Fo… more →
Talk About Quality
John Henry the Maintenance Programmer
Tom Harris wrote 4 months ago: Thanks to Bulkan Evcimen for tweeting about an article I doubt I would have found otherwise: “ … more →
Software's Unwelcome Advantage
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Tom Harris wrote 4 months ago: Software’s Unwelcome Advantage You can do anything in software. That’s the mantra, and i … more →
The Tip of the Iceberg
Tom Harris wrote 6 months ago: We all like to think that functional requirements are the main thing, and successfully designing and … more →
Don't get stuck
Tom Harris wrote 6 months ago: Having a standalone consumer application get stuck or crash, requiring reboot, is not the worst thin … more →
Software Developer
Tom Harris wrote 6 months ago: That’s right, not “development” but “developer”. The latest issue of T … more →
Keeping Embedded Software on Track
Tom Harris wrote 7 months ago: Consider a function in software code, and how to write it properly so that it meets its requirements … more →
Essentials of Code Review
Tom Harris wrote 8 months ago: Why Code Review? We write code for two audiences. One audience is the hardware: the compiler, and th … more →
Code Quality and the Machine
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Tom Harris wrote 1 year ago: I’m reading and excellent book Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets, by Peter Van Der Linden. … more →
Focusing Code Review
Tom Harris wrote 1 year ago: In an article Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs, in the September/October 2008 issue of “IEEE … more →
Telescopes and Software
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Tom Harris wrote 1 year ago: This evening I was looking for pricing on some code analysis tools, and found an organization that h … more →
Read Before Running
Tom Harris wrote 1 year ago: Debugging: How to Start (commonly accepted method) Search for “debugging” on the interne … more →
Why We Write Software
Tom Harris wrote 1 year ago: “Isn’t it nice to know that, when all else fails us, we have an innate decision-making t … more →
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Tom Harris wrote 1 year ago: Some return for your U.S. taxpayer dollars: CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering i … more →
Process + Craft = Quality
Tom Harris wrote 2 years ago: This week, I moved from a general process improvement group to a software development department, to … more →
Craftsmen (and women) in the Modern Factory
Tom Harris wrote 2 years ago: Used to be that products were made by craftsmen. Lots of art, skill, and tools in the hands of an ex … more →
We're Not in Kansas Anymore
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Tom Harris wrote 2 years ago: Usually I just write my book reviews on Amazon, but this book is important enough that I wanted to p … more →
The Practicing Developer
Tom Harris wrote 2 years ago: I’ve often thought about the advantage that athletes and musicians have over software develope … more →
What Code Review Should Not Find
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Tom Harris wrote 2 years ago: I write so much about code review that I may forget to emphasize the obvious. First, “code rev … more →
Continuous Code Review
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Tom Harris wrote 2 years ago: Continuous code review is reviewing all the code, all the time. That’s the theory. In real life, som … more →
