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View ArticleUninitialized variables and gcc
All software has bugs. As humans, it is in our nature to make mistakes. We forget, make typos, become distracted and implement something wrong. It happens. You know what else happens? Habit. For...
View ArticleFlush your caches!
We'd like to think our operating systems are perfect, that they're bug free--because we run into so few problems with them--but here is clearly a case where that's not true. Right on the heels of the...
View ArticleSSH Tips and Tricks
Secure Shell (SSH) is a network protocol that allows you to securely exchange information with a remote machine. It's used by administrators and developers all over the world and is an indispensable...
View ArticleAwesome Vim Configuration
As developers and engineers, we should always be striving to increase our productivity by clearing away the clutter and focusing on the problem at hand. One aspect that we don't focus on enough is...
View ArticleWorkflow Reboot
A couple years ago, we decided that we were unhappy with one aspect of our development workflow and decided to switch away from Subversion to Git for most of our internal projects. It was a big change...
View ArticleThe Problem With Threads
Threading is a fact of life in software development. Having code that can execute concurrently is a necessity to solve many real-life problems. But, I think the most difficult concept to grasp is how...
View ArticleDetails Matter
It's tempting as an engineer to feel like you've got everything figured out: all paths are covered, you understand the entire make up of the system or language, that there is nothing that has escaped...
View ArticleTips for Error Handling
Writing correct code can often be a large effort in it's own right due to the sheer complexity of the problem being solved. Add in error handling, and the problem just got exponentially more...
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