Month: May 2013

Happy Birthday WordPress!

Post author By tongwing
Post date May 28, 2013
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From the creator of WordPress:

Has it really been 10 years? It seems just yesterday we were playing around on my blog, and the blogs of a few high school friends. Two of those friends are married, one isn’t anymore, two are still figuring things out, and one has passed away.

You were cute before you became beautiful. Wearing black and white, afraid of color, trying to be so unassuming. I know you got jealous when I wore those Blogger t-shirts. They were the cool kids at SxSW and I thought maybe you could grow up to be like them.

Read more here: http://ma.tt/2013/05/dear-wordpress/

programming

All software have bugs. Period.

Post author By tongwing
Post date May 16, 2013
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I’m recently reminded of this old article by Josh Bloch when dealing with some of our clients. Some people can’t seem to accept that software can have bugs and software can crash (note: in this case it’s not our software). For those of them, I leave them with the following quote from the article I mention:

We programmers need all the help we can get, and we should never assume otherwise. Careful design is great. Testing is great. Formal methods are great. Code reviews are great. Static analysis is great. But none of these things alone are sufficient to eliminate bugs: They will always be with us. A bug can exist for half a century despite our best efforts to exterminate it. We must program carefully, defensively, and remain ever vigilant.

via Extra, Extra – Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken.

If we can’t even get a “simple” binary search working bug-free – by someone with such distinguished credentials – what hope is there for the rest of us for getting complex software to work correctly 100% of the time?

sysadmin

MikeBeach.org

While searching for a solution to stop @eaDir from being generated on the Synology NAS, I came across this blog, which has quite a number of good articles that sysadmins will find useful.

Will certainly be keeping this in my bookmarks for reference.