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Archive for October, 2006

At a first glance this is a rather surprising thought. But the explanation McConnel gives in "Code Complete" is obvious: Testing doesn't include debugging or restructuring the code. So testing technically doesn't change the code at all. Finding and fixing the defects hopefully does increase code quality, though.
Speaking about tests, there's another interesting observation in [...]

The Nerd and the Manager

Since code is the primary output of construction, a key question in managing construction is "How do you encourage good coding practices?" In general, mandating a strict set of standards from the top isn't a good idea. Programmers tend to view managers as being at a lower level of technical evolution, somewhere between single-celled organisms [...]

Today I took another shot at the KDE4 on windows target.
First, I found this link which tells you how to keep up to date with qt-copy: just download the correct snapshot from the troll's ftp site.
I downloaded the 10/02 snapshot and applied the latest msvc 2005 patches from the qtwin sourceforge project. Then I configured [...]