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Bug fixing? Do it now rather than later
I recently attended an event where a speaker gave the metaphor of the age old customs from the Kamba people. He talked about how the […]
Why developers shouldn’t have access to production databases
In order to support a high number of transaction processing in an automated environment like in e-commerce, some measures need to be taken to ensure […]
Its not just about load testing, its about performance counters
During my initial days in QA one of my tasks involved doing load tests on systems. We all know that this kind of tests are […]
Don’t build an MIS please!
In his April 6th 2014 post, Sunny Bindra poses a question, “What is your child being educated to become?”. I will pose a techy version […]
Pareto(80-20) principle in software Engineering
Land is a very thorny subject in Kenya. People have been displaced being rendered landless while others own province sized chunks of land. This whole […]
Can you insure against downtime?
In a January post in this link, I posed the question as to whether software developers were prosecution proof. This is of course in line […]
Windows XP zero day approaches-how ATMs are affected
After April 14th 2014, Microsoft will not release any more windows XP patches. This is the infamous Zero day and that will mean a security […]
Are software developers prosecution proof?
The world seems to have discovered a means of getting to the bottom of things; litigation. In the last couple of years everyone has been […]
Default is the mother of all evil
Doing things the easy way, taking the shortest path to one’s destination, not having a second thought. Those are the greatest mistakes that have popularized […]