SSW (australian company, lead by my good friend Adam Cogan) has a great product for code audit.

The concept is quite simple : define rules using regular expressions (it has a builtin RegEx editor) to be checked against source code, file path, file names, HTML code ...etc, and define wether that is a desirable (should exist) or undesirable (should not exist) pattern (there is a lot of flexibility built in, as setting exceptions, notes, or statistics about the rules and the time they take). You choose the files you want to apply the rules to, and you run a scan. At the end you get a detailed report.

   The tool allows you to schedule automatic execution, and email the reports to any email address.

   It has many qualities I love in products: useful, productive, simple... Great job, Adam.

3/18/2005 4:17:16 AM UTC     

Check out this series of Videos :

Scott and Rory go to TechEd :

• #1 : A love Story
• #2 : Scott and Rory design some software

Way to go guys, keep up the fun.

3/17/2005 10:45:48 PM UTC     

Big changes for me in the air ...

I won't give anymore details until May 1st.

3/15/2005 3:34:32 PM UTC     

What's the next step for .Net ? this might just be it ...

AspSoft  is preparing a big surprise for TechEd 2005. be there!

3/3/2005 11:18:46 AM UTC     

Not counting home, Me and Goksin just realized we have been on 4 continents this month... and we've been there together too... does this call for a new club?

2/26/2005 3:11:03 PM UTC     

It still takes you too much time to build your Business entities and manage their persitence?  Check out what Serena is doing with paladin.

I will be talking in more details about it next week (as I am just finishing the last details of Atlantis bank, and finally getting ready to be out of the tunnel).

2/24/2005 2:39:52 AM UTC     

I have been looking at bug tracking for a Mozilla (Firefox) bug related to tooltips.

I was surprized by quite a few things. Here are some :

• 5 years to fix a bug ?
• Opened: 2000-07-13 06:28 PST
• Status : ASSIGNED        Priority : P3
• Last modified: 2005-02-11 15:01 PST
• Threads that take up days to end up marked as duplicates
• an incredible offer :

I'm interested in attempting to fix this bug...  I'm a competent C/C++
programmer with no experience with the Mozilla code base, so I'd appreciate it
if someone could point me to the part of the code (file and lines) where
tooltips are handled, and I'll take a look.

• Even comments like this :

The problem, as I understand it, is that the bug blocking this one depends on a
person who is no longer working on Mozilla doing some work, or another person
doing a huge amount of work.  If anyone would like to fix it, many people would
appreciate it.

You still like to use OSS in your critical systems? good luck...

2/19/2005 9:02:29 AM UTC