Good Code: Part Four of Five – Testable Code

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Welcome back to our five week series, where we explore five aspects of code that should really be fundamental to code being described as “good”. This week we bring you part four. So far we have covered Correctness, Understandability, and Efficiency.

Much of the series is built upon Sara Falamaki’s talk, entitled “Happy Hackers == Happy Code”, which Eric attended at Linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington. More →

September 30, 2010

Microsoft’s Excel vs OpenOffice’s Calc – Proprietary or Open Source?

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In this day and age, when it comes to selecting software, a greater range of options are available than ever before. Take browsers for example. Think Internet Explorer (I can hear the laughter from here!), Safari, Firefox, Chrome, or Opera. But they aren’t the only options. Ever heard of SeaMonkey? Konqueror? Amaya? How about Flock?