Exploring Software: A Software Engineer’s Toolkit
Software engineering recommendations have not changed. The issues and concerns have been known for years. However, with the availability of excellent tools, it is now no longer a pain to implement and follow…
Protecode: Software License Management is Like Any Other Quality Management Process
Someone rightly observed: “All code is guilty, until proven innocent.” Ask the members of any software development team, and they will agree that tracking open source software components that have gone into building…
FOSS is __FUN__: FOSS Meets the MBA
How does FOSS development get along with business graduates who know little about the process? The FOSS methodology recognises that software development is a process that never ends. The developer adopts the end-user…
Joy of Programming: Fail Fast!
When a problem occurs in the software, it should fail immediately, in an easily noticeable way. This “fail fast” behaviour is desirable, and we’ll discuss this important concept in this column. At first,…
Digital Magazine Store Magzter Uses Open Source to Slash Costs
A mobile digital magazine newsstand goes the open source way to cut its initial investments, and allow publishers to share digital editions of their periodicals with a widely-dispersed global readership. Magzter is a…
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 4
Lisp has been hailed as the world’s most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic syntax and academic reputation. This is rather unfortunate, since…
FOSS is __FUN__: A Testing Time
The other day, I had an opportunity to see how software development takes place in the “industry” — in other words, the proprietary world. I did not know whether to laugh or cry!…
Tracking the DNA of Your Android Code
In my previous article, we explored a process that developer teams can follow to manage the source code for software-related product development, using the Black Duck Suite. In this article, we will explore…
Joy of Programming: SNAFU — Situation Normal, All Fouled Up!
The stories of software development projects in crisis are amazingly familiar to all experienced programmers and managers. In this column, we’ll look at some common aspects of projects in crisis and how they…
Do You Know the Trick to Track Your Code’s DNA?
You can now manage the source code for software-related product development in your organisation, using the Black Duck Suite, which among other capabilities, generates an alert each time a developer infringes a licensing…
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