The joke goes that only two industries refer to their customers as “users.” But here's the real punch line: Drug users and software users are about equally likely to recover damages for whatever harms ...

Every big project contains a section of indispensable, incomplete, and incomprehensible code. Careers rise and fall working on it, and the product lives or dies according to its quality. In this ...

In the Code Anthem blog post Bad Code is Viral, Amber Shah describes why “writing bad code is viral.” This is a great post that reminds me of a pattern I have seen repeatedly: bad code does seem to ...

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Bad programmers seem to exist in every organization. The decisions they make and the code they write create more problems, hassles, and bugs than any interviewer can imagine. Enough with the bad code ...

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Justin Dolly is the Chief Security Officer for Sauce Labs, the leading provider of testing solutions that deliver digital confidence. Consider this scenario: Sales and marketing are yelling at ...

Sapan Parikh is a seasoned tech enthusiast, cofounder of Incubyte and a strong advocate of building high-quality software products. Imagine a multimillion-dollar company with a lot of software. The ...

This is the fourth installment in a series on whether and how to hold software makers financially liable for the insecurity of their products. Part I offered an overview of the problem of insecure ...

A chain of miscommunication escalates a runaway situation into a Code 3 response, highlighting how fast things can spiral ...