I am currently reading Code Complete 2 as per Jeff Atwood’s Recommended Reading for Developers list, where I came across this interesting quote by Glenford Myers: We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that […]
Programming
How to Win Friends and Generate People
I’m doing a project for a subject at RMIT which needs to manage thousands of patient records for a hospital. We haven’t been given any sample data though, so I wanted to write a generator (so we can test it with small or large data sets whenever needed). I started with the name generator (in […]
Nanosecond Timing
My Uni (RMIT) uses a mixture of Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows computer labs. Our programs are nearly always tested on Solaris, though. Sometimes we are required to provide nanosecond timings in our experiments using the (real-time) POSIX function gethrtime(). Depending on which lab I work in, or if I’m working from home, […]