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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…