Either it has been a really slow news week, or I’ve gotten faster at processing news from multiple news aggregators. I’ve been getting to the office early in the morning, and the content of /. and other popular news sites just did not give me my fill of reading for the morning. I began wondering […]
The year is almost over, and I’ve been searching through the usual office supply stores for a type of calendar. I saw a vertical year planner, similar to this during my last trip to Germany. I thought that something like this could be found easily at my local store, but neither officedepot.com nor staples.com seem […]
Lately, I have been working as a lead developer on a software module for a reasonably sized project. What seemed to be a task that appeared to require no more than three weeks has turned into something that has spanned four months and may include an additional two months for the provision of integration support. […]
It’s very hard to discuss software engineering topics with respect to a given language when there’s some confusion between “function overloading” and “function overriding.”
I have ran into a few snags while trying to update parts of my code that depended on other peoples’ code. Other people updated the interface of their modules, and I needed to update the way my module interacted with theirs. Being slightly optimistic and feeling a bit of schedule pressure, a simple identifier substitution […]