Uncategorized – J D Curtis

TDR – Summary Data

“Things done right” is a series of blog entries focusing in on both legacy and modern design and implementation componentry

I write code, at an average of about 3000-5000 lines a year. But sometimes a lot more, like in 2002-2004

If nothing else in life I want to be painfully honest. Of course honesty can be painful not just for

So, DQL. More about DQL. I was writing some more automated tests yesterday and part of the automation is to

During a wave of fatigue in the end game of shipping a piece of software, a quality engineer (that is

I had heard a story of an experiment performed on a community of monkeys. Don’t worry, it’s not true. Well,

Efficiency in programming languages is achieved by avoiding bad practices like excessive looping, too many I/O or network operations and

A few years ago, I and 3 of my colleagues were drafted for a skunkworks effort, a throwaway project. Prove

True, though paraphrased discussion (circa 2002): Me: We should have a full test harness and throw low level errors so