Searching the internet for version numbers is largely pointless: the hits are useless. I’ve tried variations on “version numbers daily build.” However, I, in my voracious blog reading, remembered a few posts by some bloggers I read so I figured I’d link to them here so they are all in one spot. Jensen Harris’ post [...] Read more »

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This is a follow up to my last post about version numbers. There’s a very practical reason for having a monotonically increasing Version Number as a function of time: upgrading installers. If your daily build produces an executable including an upgrading installer, then you definitely want an increasing build number for every daily build. The [...] Read more »

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Cyclomatic complexity refers to the number of paths through a piece of code. If you want to impress people with fancy science talk, you can refer to this page at Carnegie-Mellon Software Institute. Suppose you had the following method on a class: 1 public bool IsSomeValue(bool foo, bool bar) 2 { 3 [...] Read more »

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There have been a number of items on the ol’ information superhighway over the past week dealing with software quality. First, once Visual Studio 2005 officially shipped on Monday, a number of high-profile .NET bloggers (Wesner, Frans, Roy) posted about bugs that they experienced with the RTM version. Mini-Microsoft summed it up in a couple of posts [...] Read more »

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I just spent the last two hours writing an article for all of you about Nullable<T> and the XmlSerializer, but my blog engine prompted me with a login screen when I hit post and the post was subsequently lost. I may appear calm and civilized with my text here, but I’ve been swearing non-stop since it happened. [...] Read more »

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