Never Fear Sir, For I Have a Cunning Plan...- September 26, 2003 I've posted 8 times in the past month, and 2 of my posts have contained links with a query string. Radio seems to have developed a charming habit of trashing the equal sign in a query string. This entry contained a garbage character in the query string, which which got replaced with some other garbage when I tried to edit it over email. At least this garbage is valid XML. The previous post that had a query string got trashed, and then Radio escaped my markup when I tried to fix it (that...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106046/2003/09/26.html#a321 Struct or Class- September 24, 2003 I've been reviewing a draft of a book on C, and while reading the author's discussion of struct, I disagreed with the author's criteria for determining whether to declare a class as a class or a struct, which came down to a decision over whether you'll ever want to subclass the type and whether you'll be passing the type as a parameter or returning them from a method. For the first point, I'm of the opinion that it's really hard to guess whether a class will ever be subclassed,..http://radio.weblogs.com/0106046/2003/09/24.html#a320 Remember This- September 19, 2003 Remember this the next time someone compares software construction to building a house: "Well, what I've learned from my first large construction project is that this is hogwash. The building industry doesn't know how to do anything on schedule or on budget, either."http://radio.weblogs.com/0106046/2003/09/18.html#a319 Balancing Developers and Testers- September 19, 2003 Joshua Allen has an interesting post on the changing balance between development and testing resources, at least at Microsoft. While the general claim that the advent of managed code has made developers so much more productive that the testers are now overwhelmed is pretty significant, the really interesting quote is in the third paragraph: "there is always the possibility that the ever-increasing test expenditures will not coincide with a reduction in the number or severity of high-profile...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106046/2003/09/18.html#a318 Building airplanes- September 15, 2003 Over at je apostrophe, there's a quote from one of the early conferences on software engineering: "We build systems like the Wright brothers built airplanes-build the whole thing, push it off the cliff, let it crash, and start over again." I've been reading To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. The book (at least the early chapters) is basically a contrast between the efforts of Samuel Langley at the Smithsonian Instutition and the Wright Brothers. Langley's..http://radio.weblogs.com/0106046/2003/09/15.html#a317 |