When Nest decided to brick all Revolv devices they gave us a strong reminder: sometimes cloud services disappear! When the once search giant Altavista petered out, no one cared and few noticed. The users had already moved on to Bing, Yahoo or Google. Perhaps a few young people reacted, reminded…
Of all the limits on our cognition, confirmation bias is perhaps the ugliest. Confirmation bias is hard to get to grip with as it leads us to consider even contradictory evidence as confirmatory. Does confirmation bias affect even software professionals? Of course it does, we are all in the grip…
In a previous post, I was discussing briefly which the best C++ unit testing framework could be. The economic benefits of succesfully applying unit testing are substantial after all. After careful consideration I have found two candidates: Google Test and Parasoft C++Test. Google Test is a comprehensive unit testing framework…
