This article started as a stackoverflow answer , and then I copied it over here to expand on it. For a discussion of the same issue but in...

These two screen captures are from CrystalDiskMark measuring the performance of my brand new Samsung 850 PRO 256GB Solid State Drive (C:) ve...

The following image shows the mind-boggling amount of memory occupied by MySQL 5.6 server on Windows 7 64-bit. (This is despite the fac...

This post does not contain any spoilers, unless you would consider as a spoiler my opinion on how the quality if the movie varies as the mov...

Exceptions are the best thing since sliced bread.  If you use them properly, you can write code of much higher quality than without them.  I...

Here is a check list for creating useful bug reports: 1. Before reporting, make sure that you are using the latest version of the software...

I just submitted a feature request for IntelliJ IDEA. It can be found here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-132626 Feature re...

A quick look at the source code that I have written over the past couple of decades in various work projects and hobby projects of mine show...

So, since we do software testing, we should quit placing assert statements in production code, right? Let me count the ways in which this ...