The Influence of Organizational Structure On Software Quality: An Empirical Case Study - Microsoft Research

For instance, the UI finds that a certain card is in the graveyard. It is essential that the UI sub-system does not care why the card is there, or how it got there. It is entirely a dumb client.

Are there major differences between projects in different languages? Is it possible to quantify these differences? I decided to try to gather some hard numbers.

For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra. It has been written as a Ruby Gem and was tested and evaluated against one Ruby on Rails project....

The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use case, except for a few very rarely needed things. It's not something you'll likely reach for on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis. Th...

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a queue." Now they have an unbounded number of problems.

Networked message queues like ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, and a host of other Java inspired software tumors ar...

Nice article to educate your non-geek girlfriend/boyfriend about the joys of programming.

UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models for inferior languages.

An ancient essay on software design that, after 20 years, should still guide you for every line of code you write.

The tree command will show you the contents of a directory and all its sub directories as a tree:

>tree
.
├── a
│   ├── file_1.txt
│   └── file_2.txt
└── b
    ├── c
    │   └── even_more.txt
    └── more.txt

3 directories, 4 files

If...

A friend of mine calls it "the curse of the gifted" -- a tendency to lean on your native ability too much, because you've always been rewarded for doing that and self-discipline would take actual work.