Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Principles of Distributed System Design

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Every day software engineers face the task of designing new systems or maintaining existing systems. Whether the need to make ...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

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Of course the advice of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is applicable to many aspects of life, but it is p...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Validation and Verification

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Large software developments need as many checks and balances as possible to ensure a quality product. One proven technique is ...
Monday, February 28, 2022

BIOS Update

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The day before going on a week-long work trip I updated my laptop's BIOS. This image is what came up on restart. Luck...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Twitter Card Meta Tags

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My girlfriend likes to say that I'm, "such a fanboy" of Mary Roach. Maybe so. I was going to make a Twitter pos...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Keep Track of Every Change

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Every change has the potential to cause problems. Three common problems are: The change did not fix the problem for which it ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Control Baselines

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It is the responsibility of software configuration management (SCM) to hold the agreed-upon specifications and regulate change...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Independence Hall

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Where America started... Construction on the Pennsylvania State Hou...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Rotate People Through Product Assurance

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  In many organizations, people are moved into product assurance teams as a first assignment or after they have demonstrated poo...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

The Sieve of Eratosthenes

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Eratosthenes Tonight I have been thinking about applications of the principle of inclusion-exclusion. The gist of it is how to ...