Vital Software Issues 'N Stuff

Item based collaborative filtering in the OP room

See you next year

 Some facts about my cartoon blog:- 8000 clicks per month – 500’000 (far more) in total – most of the visitors are from USA, Asia and South America.No ads on the blog by purpose. Please note, if you are using one of the cartoons for…

Obvious Bugs

 After a series of good quality delivered to the customers, there came the temptation to short-cut testing activities. Under pressure, trade-off decisions have to  be taken. Can we risk delaying the release again due to a weird anomaly that h…

Special fears in the world of insects

Hitting Earth

Roughing up the atmosphere

RegEx at Stone Age

Arrested for deep seeking

The Fosbury Flop

The Fosbury Flop & the Dunning-Kruger EffectWhen Richard Fosbury surprised the audience with a new world-record in high jump at the Olympic Games in Mexico, I was just about 1 year old. Too young to understand what he achieved. I learnt about him l…

Fatal exception – or how to get rid of errors

Dave, a good friend,  sent me a WhatsApp message and made fun of a software that– when put
under load – did not properly log invalid login attempts.
All he could see was “error:0” or “error:null” in the log-file.
 This reminded me to a simil…