ACT III: Reality Sinks In (Read Act I & Act II) THE SOUND of typing can be heard and then suddenly a loud groan of disappointment. DEV LEAD Argggggggggggggggg!!! FADE IN: INT. CORPORATE OFFICE THE DEV LEAD is looking at his bug queue in HP Quality Center, the bug count is 6,894 defects, all assigned to him. [...]
The Comedy and Tragedy of Automated Security Source Code Analysis – Act III
November 5th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Withholding features as a Competitive Strategy
July 21st, 2009 § 0 comments § permalink
When Apple announced what was coming in it’s iPhone 3.0 software update it activated a hidden marketing weapon that it had deployed the day the iPhone was released. Was it a secret feature that had gone some how unnoticed? Actually quite the opposite, it was a missing feature that Apple had been very openly criticized [...]
Carbonite – Not Ready for the Real World
June 18th, 2009 § 25 comments § permalink
A few months ago I decided that I needed to add an offsite option to my backup plan (I use the amazing CrashPlan+ to backup everything to my home server but what if my server gets stolen or bursts into fire?). To solve my problems I went looking for an offsite “in the cloud” backup solution. [...]