Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Testing Concurrent Programs (by Brian Goetz)

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Aviation Formulary V1.43. See also: Great Circle Mapper.
Origin
Aviation Formulary V1.43: "Aviation Formulary V1.43".
See also: Great Circle Mapper.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Fuzz testing

How to test a program by feeding it files which contain random bad data.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Saturday, August 26, 2006

The cranky user: Your language usage matters - an article about dialog boxes and the confusion they can cause.

Friday, August 25, 2006

WhyNot? Idea Exchange

Indeed. Why not!?

Friday, August 18, 2006

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Creating Passionate Users: Mediocrity by "areas of improvement": "By focusing on 'areas of improvement', we're putting a square peg in a round hole. What do we end up with? A crappy, rounded off peg who meets the minimum thresholds at the expense of their most kick-ass attributes."

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Distance measures:
Hamming distance. Number of substitutions necessary to transform one string into another, both having the same length.
Procr[a/u]stes distance. Possibly after alignment, sum of Euclidean distances of two sets of points, both having the same number of points.