Software Exorcism

Author : Bill Blunden
Publisher : Apress
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430251088

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Software Exorcism by Bill Blunden Pdf

YOU HAVE TO OWN THIS BOOK! Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code takes an unflinching, no bulls$&# look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Do you have a co-worker who perpetually writes bad code that you are forced to clean up? This is your book. While there are plenty of books on the market that cover debugging and short-term workarounds for bad code, Reverend Bill Blunden takes a revolutionary step beyond them by bringing our attention to the underlying illnesses that plague the software industry as a whole. Further, Software Exorcism discusses tools and techniques for effective and aggressive debugging, gives optimization strategies that appeal to all levels of programmers, and presents in-depth treatments of technical issues with honest assessments that are not biased toward proprietary solutions.

Author : Bill Blunden
Publisher : Apress
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1430254238

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Author : Adam Barr
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262348218

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The Problem with Software by Adam Barr Pdf

An industry insider explains why there is so much bad software—and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know. Why is software so prone to bugs? So vulnerable to viruses? Why are software products so often delayed, or even canceled? Is software development really hard, or are software developers just not that good at it? In The Problem with Software, Adam Barr examines the proliferation of bad software, explains what causes it, and offers some suggestions on how to improve the situation. For one thing, Barr points out, academia doesn't teach programmers what they actually need to know to do their jobs: how to work in a team to create code that works reliably and can be maintained by somebody other than the original authors. As the size and complexity of commercial software have grown, the gap between academic computer science and industry has widened. It's an open secret that there is little engineering in software engineering, which continues to rely not on codified scientific knowledge but on intuition and experience. Barr, who worked as a programmer for more than twenty years, describes how the industry has evolved, from the era of mainframes and Fortran to today's embrace of the cloud. He explains bugs and why software has so many of them, and why today's interconnected computers offer fertile ground for viruses and worms. The difference between good and bad software can be a single line of code, and Barr includes code to illustrate the consequences of seemingly inconsequential choices by programmers. Looking to the future, Barr writes that the best prospect for improving software engineering is the move to the cloud. When software is a service and not a product, companies will have more incentive to make it good rather than “good enough to ship."

Author : Rech, J”rg,Bunse, Christian
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605660073

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Model-Driven Software Development: Integrating Quality Assurance by Rech, J”rg,Bunse, Christian Pdf

Covers important concepts, issues, trends, methodologies, and technologies in quality assurance for model-driven software development.

Author : Paula Bialski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780691257167

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Middle Tech by Paula Bialski Pdf

Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company Contrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply “good enough.” In Middle Tech, Paula Bialski offers an ethnographic study of software developers at a non-flashy, non-start-up corporate tech company. Their stories reveal why software isn’t perfect and how developers communicate, care, and compromise to make software work—or at least work until the next update. Exploring the culture of good enoughness at a technology firm she calls “MiddleTech,” Bialski shows how doing good-enough work is a collectively negotiated resistance to the organizational ideology found in corporate software settings. The truth, Bialski reminds us, is that technology breaks due to human-related issues: staff cutbacks cause media platforms to crash, in-car GPS systems cause catastrophic incidents, and chatbots can be weird. Developers must often labor to patch and repair legacy systems rather than dream up killer apps. Bialski presents a less sensationalist, more empirical portrait of technology work than the frequently told Silicon Valley narratives of disruption and innovation. She finds that software engineers at MiddleTech regard technology as an ephemeral object that only needs to be good enough to function until its next iteration. As a result, they don’t feel much pressure to make it perfect. Through the deeply personal stories of people and their practices at MiddleTech, Bialski traces the ways that workers create and sustain a complex culture of good enoughness.

Author : Henry Selvaraj,Brijesh Verma
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814545280

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Computational Intelligence And Multimedia Applications'98 - Proceedings Of The 2nd International Conference by Henry Selvaraj,Brijesh Verma Pdf

This book presents four keynote speeches, eight invited papers and over a hundred papers selected from 180 submissions from more than 25 countries around the world. The contributions investigate applications of computational intelligence and multimedia in various areas, such as artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, pattern recognition, evolutionary computations, logic synthesis, fuzzy logic, image processing, image retrieval, virtual reality, etc.

Author : Edward G. Nilges
Publisher : Apress
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430206989

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Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler by Edward G. Nilges Pdf

* Includes a complete QuickBasic compiler with source code. We cannot overstress that this is a huge marketing hook. Virtually every experienced programmer today started out with some version of Basic or QuickBasic and has at some point in their career wondered how it worked. The sheer nostalgia alone will generate sales. The idea of having QuickBasic for them to play with (or let their kids play with) will generate sales. * One of a kind book – nothing else comes close to this book. * Demystifies compiler technology for ordinary programmers – this is a subject usually covered by academic books in a manner too advanced for most developers. This book is pitched at a level accessible to all but beginners. * Teaches skills used in many other types of programming from creation of macro/scripting languages to file parsing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Weights and measures
ISBN : MINN:20000003466535

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NBS Special Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Industrial mobilization
ISBN : UCR:31210025449800

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Control Systems Readiness for Munitions Plants by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew B. Doar
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596553838

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Practical Development Environments by Matthew B. Doar Pdf

This book doesn't tell you how to write faster code, or how to write code with fewer memory leaks, or even how to debug code at all. What it does tell you is how to build your product in better ways, how to keep track of the code that you write, and how to track the bugs in your code. Plus some more things you'll wish you had known before starting a project. Practical Development Environments is a guide, a collection of advice about real development environments for small to medium-sized projects and groups. Each of the chapters considers a different kind of tool - tools for tracking versions of files, build tools, testing tools, bug-tracking tools, tools for creating documentation, and tools for creating packaged releases. Each chapter discusses what you should look for in that kind of tool and what to avoid, and also describes some good ideas, bad ideas, and annoying experiences for each area. Specific instances of each type of tool are described in enough detail so that you can decide which ones you want to investigate further. Developers want to write code, not maintain makefiles. Writers want to write content instead of manage templates. IT provides machines, but doesn't have time to maintain all the different tools. Managers want the product to move smoothly from development to release, and are interested in tools to help this happen more often. Whether as a full-time position or just because they are helpful, all projects have toolsmiths: making choices about tools, installing them, and then maintaining the tools that everyone else depends upon. This book is especially for everyone who ends up being a toolsmith for his or her group.

Author : Grady Hendrix
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594748639

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My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Pdf

Soon to be a major motion picture. This ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION features TONS of TOTALLY AWESOME ’80s bonus materials—including Satanic Panic educational pamphlets, a do-it-yourself exorcism cheat sheet, a Spotify playlist of awesome ’80s tunes, animated cover artwork, and much more! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller. The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?

Author : Chris Hanson,Gerald Jay Sussman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262362474

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Software Design for Flexibility by Chris Hanson,Gerald Jay Sussman Pdf

Strategies for building large systems that can be easily adapted for new situations with only minor programming modifications. Time pressures encourage programmers to write code that works well for a narrow purpose, with no room to grow. But the best systems are evolvable; they can be adapted for new situations by adding code, rather than changing the existing code. The authors describe techniques they have found effective--over their combined 100-plus years of programming experience--that will help programmers avoid programming themselves into corners. The authors explore ways to enhance flexibility by: Organizing systems using combinators to compose mix-and-match parts, ranging from small functions to whole arithmetics, with standardized interfaces Augmenting data with independent annotation layers, such as units of measurement or provenance Combining independent pieces of partial information using unification or propagation Separating control structure from problem domain with domain models, rule systems and pattern matching, propagation, and dependency-directed backtracking Extending the programming language, using dynamically extensible evaluators

Author : Jeffrey M. Cogswell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470113189

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Designing Highly Useable Software by Jeffrey M. Cogswell Pdf

Learn What Usability Really Is, Why to Strive for It, and How to Achieve It "Highly useable" software is easy to use. It does what you expect it to. And it does it well. It's not easy to build but as this book demonstrates, it's well worth the effort. Highly useable software is highly successful software—and everyone wins. Inside, an accomplished programmer who has made usability his business systematically explores the world of programming, showing you how every aspect of the work is implicated in the usability of the final product. This is not just an "issues" book, however, but systematic, real-world instructions for developing applications that are better in every way. As you'll learn, there's no such thing as "intuitive" software. Instead, there are just the factors that make it highly useable: simplicity, consistency, the recognition of accepted conventions, and the foregrounding of the user's perspective. With these principles under your belt, you'll quickly discover dozens of ways to make your applications more useable: Making windows and dialog boxes easy to comprehend and use Designing software that is time- and resource-efficient Making your software easy to navigate Reducing the complexity of reports and other presentations of data Understanding how the wrong programming decisions can limit usability Ensuring smooth starts and stops Capitalizing on the usability advantages of object-oriented programming Understanding how usability affects your product's financial success Using the testing process to improve usability Promoting usability in training, installation, and online help Making management decisions that will benefit software usability Some chapters are written primarily for programmers, one primarily for managers. Most are for everyone, and all are filled with illuminating, usually amusing examples drawn from both inside and outside the technical world. A helpful appendix provides information on standards, usability groups, and sources for more information.

Author : Michael Freze
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530812828

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The Rite of Exorcism the Roman Ritual by Michael Freze Pdf

The Roman Rite of Exorcism (Rituale Romanum). An updated, scholarly treatment of the Rite of Exorcism from a Catholic perspective. Includes simple deliverance prayers from evil spirits. Extensive background on the history of the Rite, current rules and procedures, and traditional prayers of exorcism and deliverance. Written by Michael Freze, S.F.O., Catholic scholar and world recognized expert on demonology. The author has published a 12-book series on demonology, providing an important work in the field of demonology and the study of possession and exorcism. Destined to become a classic among the Catholic books of our era. A recent endorsement: "I have to say that of the many books I have read (having multiple degrees in theology -including my Doctorate from Columbia University) your "They Bore the Wounds of Christ: The Mystery of the Sacred Stigmata..." is one of my all time favorites. In fact not only do I continue to refer to it, but there are certain passages that you explain that could only be attributable to infused divine inspiration. Please continue to write ... Peace, Deacon Mike Vicinanza" (April 17, 2016).

Author : Robin L. Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0962654116

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Raising the Pentagon by Robin L. Stratton Pdf