Advice on debugging software from Sherlock Holmes
Here is some timeless advice on debugging software from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. “There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact”...
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Some things are “volatile”
When writing code for devices, the programmer will encounter some things that are volatile – variables which must be declared with the volatile keyword. ...
You should use a Debugging Mark
Using a Debugging Mark can be one of the easier, yet more powerful tools in your programmer’s tool kit. Yet many developers have never...
For whom are you writing the code
I think it is important to understand for whom you are writing the source code. Once upon a distant time, I was a manager....