Segmentation Fault

I receive about 200 e-mails a day. Some are discussion threads from several internal distribution lists I monitor, others are stuff people need from me or replies to my e-mails, and some are internal announcements – sometimes confidential. I received one of those on Sunday, and I've been itching to blog about all this time, but I couldn't… Until now! (well, actually, until Monday, but I've been having some issues with my site, and I couldn't post till now) I am a big fan of Visual Studio Team System . Not because

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People make fun of me, because of the mobile phone I carry around.  I admit it: it's a little bigger than other phones, it's a little heavier than other phones, but it has a lot of features that other phones don't.  When it was first announced, I thought it was the perfect phone.  I waited over 6 months for it and convinced others in my group to do the same - they now give me a hard time about it whenever they get a chance. Διαβάστε Περισσότερα...

Admittedly, I'm exaggerating a little (I am just trying to provoke Panos).  But I am tired of hearing people, especially in enterprise scenarios, say "I want to use a web client for this, and a web client for that" without really thinking about it, or knowing if it's the right way to go.

Let me first make a small, obvious, but often neglected distinction: if you don't have control over who's going to be using your application (a typical Internet scenario), then you probably do need a web client. Διαβάστε Περισσότερα...

"Segmentation Fault" takes me back a few years - 14 to be exact. The location is the computer lab at the University of Birmingham, UK. I am trying to write a window manager for X-Windows (X11 to be exact), using vi and compiling it from the console. No IDE, no debugger, nothing. To be honest, I remember there was some kind of debugger available, but it was extremely complicated to setup and use, so I preferred the good old cout and printf statements. Every now and then, as my amazing window manager was executing,

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Did I hear you say "It was about time!"? Well, I guess you're right. I've been putting this off for too long – for no obvious reason. I guess my main concern was that I wouldn't be able to live up to the challenge of updating this blog frequently. I believe that must be the number one reason people put off starting their blogging activity. Number two is probably content. Which brings me nicely to the purpose of my first post: What is this blog going to be about? In all honesty, I don't really know. I intend

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