Commentary PICNIC: The Underlying Cause of Many Technical Support Calls A PICNIC is the most frequent source of problems on technical support calls.
Conventions Naming Conventions Matter: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong Joel Spolsky and Antonin Scalia join forces to help illustrate the importance of sensible code naming conventions.
Humorous Reproducing Errors A physicist, a mechanic, and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed...
Commentary Microsoft and VBA: A Love(less) Story Whatever happened to the passion Microsoft once had for VBA? From love story to marriage of convenience, this article is one weird ride.
Technical Debt Overuse of Global State You wouldn't control the water temperature in your entire house from a single location. Why would you write your code that way?