Category Archives: Process

BPGB: Frost-Bitten Features

In some environments where I’ve worked, new features were being added and bugs were being fixed up until the very moment that the code was released. This obviously leads to problems where one change generates new bugs that we have not yet had time to find, much less fix. Consequently, another buggy release goes out… Read More »

Coding Standards

At different times in the past I’ve either agreed with or fought the application of coding standards. Recently, I’ve been looking at the subject again. In a wonderful case of timing I stumbled across an ad in CUJ (10/2004) for CodingStandard.Com. They have a coding standard for C++ that seems to cover much of what… Read More »