Software glitches may be behind sudden acceleration and braking failures in Toyota vehicles. Can software quality ever match what Toyota achieved in hardware manufacturing?
Google's awarding prizes of $500 to $1337 for security bugs in Chrome and Chromium. So fire up that download, elite vulnerability hunters. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look after the pennies. Not to mention GHP is back in town ... (GOOG)
An ex-Microsoft employee appears to have leaked the release date for Windows 8 -- as well as Windows Server 2012 and Office 15. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers shun the iPad hype and imagine the free beta download within a year. Not to mention an Impressive backwards basketball shot... (MSFT)
This pilot fish supports a medical database program that's used by customers all over the country. But when one customer needs a sudden bug-fix update, everything goes well -- at first.
Mulling an in-house coding project has crystallized what I like best and least about the three scripting languages I turn to most frequently: Perl, PHP and Ruby.
Happy New Year and Decade to all software developers. I hope you many software development successes in 2010. Over the holiday break, I spent some time thinking about the tools that I use for my own development. In my work at Embarcadero Technologies, I mostly use integrated development environments (IDE).
Google's first attempt at real-time search is forcing a "feature" into a system that previously worked for its users. The result is a compromised user experience of a product that previously worked well. Anyone else think this smacks of feature-creep at the expense of usability?