Monthly Archives: May 2008

Blame the Management

So I’ve come up with a new reason that C++’s lack of garbage collection is problematic. The strange thing is that the reason is in one of C++’s usual sweet spots: performance. Really I should qualify the previous statement, I’m talking about performance in multi-threaded programs where you actually want your software to work in […]

It’s not rocket science

So i was listening to the stack overflow podcast and Jeff Atwood declared that he thought it was ridiculous that kids are graduating with a CS degree without being taught about source code control. Now I agree that source code control is an important part of software engineering but it doesn’t seem like a good […]