Archive for August, 2007

Secure Coding: Principles & Practices

August 28th, 2007 Posted in Security, Software Engineering | Comments »

I read Graff and van Wyk’s Secure Coding: Principles & Practices to completion, but not because each page was more enlightening than the previous. I realized that the same themes and adages were being repeated constantly after having read half the book. Because it was pretty easy to get midway through the book, I decided [...]

On the Lack of Exceptions

August 9th, 2007 Posted in Software Engineering | Comments »

Lately, I’ve been helping develop a reasonably sized application, which detects errors at every operation. Checking the return value of every function call seems awkward when compared to code that is written in rather informal working environments. Writing code that checks each return value is frustrating when a feature that exists in another language is [...]