Software Debugged

Much as I’m sold on Mozilla Thunderbird as an email client, it did give me a bit of a scare recently. I have a folder used to store email from a mailing list that dates back to the beginning of the decade and contains around 45k emails! However recently I noticed all the emails dated [...]

Hungarian Notation is a variable naming convention invented by Charles Simonyi. It comes in two flavours:

Systems Hungarian Notation, in which a prefix is used to encode the underlying representation of the identifier, for example dRadius to indicate that the radius is represented as a double presision number (i.e. prefixed with a “d”)
Apps Hungarian Notation, in [...]

There seems to be a perception that security is about designing technology that the hackers can’t break into. Indeed I’ve seen posts on mailing lists, asking about how secure popular instant messaging software is. Sadly I feel it’s actually not worth worrying about – because whatever weaknesses the software has, the human beings using it [...]

Greetings and welcome to Software Debugged. There are no prizes for guessing what the focus of this blog is - software obviously! Having said that, I have no intention of being narrow minded. I intend to write about anything in the field of software - and in any related field, such as the internet for [...]