Archive for the 'Coding' Category

Bad Software Day

April 6, 2007

I’ve had a bad software day. Occasionally I want to just toss the computer in the rubbish bin (Aussie/UK slang). Usually I just accept it and move on and try something different. Usually that works. Today it did not seem to matter what I tried.
It would be comical if it was [...]

Code Red

March 21, 2007

“Code Red” is one thing you never want to hear. Normally it is only on television. Unfortunately it does happen in real life.
There is another meaning that I want to give “Code Red” based on my experience in the software industry. Software that looks good on the outside but isn’t healthy on [...]

Writing the Impossible Code

December 15, 2006

I’ve been writing code since high school in 1981. During that time I have seen a number of progressions in both computer hardware and programming languages. I’m sure some of you would be familiar with BASIC (not the Visual kind) and perhaps even older languages like FORTRAN and COBOL. Personally, I hated [...]