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Editorial: Knitting Needles and Keyboards

Martin Moene

07 April 2013 21:14:46 +01:00

Traditionally, both journals and developers have editors. Frances Buontempo considers the role of an editor, in another attempt to avoid writing an editorial.

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A Model for Debug Complexity

Martin Moene

06 April 2013 22:36:28 +01:00

Debugging any program can be difficult. Sergey Ignatchenko and Dmytro Ivanchykhin develop a mathematical model for its complexity.

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Valgrind Part 6 – Helgrind and DRD

Martin Moene

05 April 2013 17:18:51 +01:00

Debugging multi-threaded code is hard. Paul Floyd uses Helgrind and DRD to find deadlocks and race conditions.

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Quality Matters #7 Exceptions: the story so far

Martin Moene

04 April 2013 18:53:30 +01:00

Exception handling is difficult to get right. Matthew Wilson recaps the story so far.

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Causality – Relating Distributed Diagnostic Contexts

Martin Moene

03 April 2013 19:25:31 +01:00

Supporting a system with many moving parts can be hard. Chris Oldwood demonstrates one way to add tags to log information to aid diagnosis.

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Executable Documentation Doesn’t Have To Slow You Down

Martin Moene

02 April 2013 19:32:36 +01:00

Comprehensibility of end-to-end scenarios and quick feedback of unit tests are competing goals. Seb Rose introduces Cucumber with tags to meet both needs.

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Why Dysfunctional Programming Matters

Martin Moene

01 April 2013 00:00:00 +01:00

Function progamming is all the rage. Teedy Deigh considers how it offers many opportunities for the serious programmer.


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