Tales from the bits

What is it better to do, code reviews or testing? Code review or software inspections are used to spot software errors, omissions and anomalies. The code review as the name implies is to look at the source code for errors and defects. To successful perform a code review a team of at least four people [...]

Microsoft BizSparkis a global program designed to help accelerate the success of entrepreneurs and early stage startups. The requirements to join the program are: The core business of the company is software development Be privately held In business for less than 3 years Generate less than 1 million USD annually The benefits are: Software: You [...]

In the online edition of ACM Communications Sept. 2009 Issue I read a very interesting article from Michael Stonebraker’s blog about the end of RDMSs. I did a little research and I found that the distributed key-value stores are gaining ground especially in Web based applications. Many sites such as Amazon, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Facebook use [...]

Brain is one of the last frontiers standing. Only recently scientists have the technology to begin recording and documenting brain activity accurately. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a field that has great to offer in mankind if treated with caution. In my opinion there are many implications involving the ability to “read” and interpret brainwaves. [...]

The problem to solve is how to write a shuffling algorithm to shuffle a deck of cards. First we will have to create a class to represent the deck of cards (52 cards in total). Then we have to create the deck and finally to shuffle the card. Shuffling is done by a one pass [...]

Fellow computer programmers and software engineers Heads up! I found out, the hard way, that I was depending a lot on the visual studio integrated environment to write my programs. I am programming for the .NET framework. I added a new weekly exercise. I write some code using either the editor edit.com or notepad.exe and [...]