Abstract: Using static analysis tools for automating code inspections can be beneficial for software engineers. Such tools can make finding bugs, or software defects, faster and cheaper than manual inspections. Despite the benefits of using static analysis tools to find bugs, research suggests that these tools are underused. In this paper, we investigate why developers are not widely using static analysis tools and how current tools could potentially be improved. We conducted interviews with 20 developers and found that although all of our participants felt that use is beneficial, false positives and the way in which the warnings are presented, among other things, are barriers to use. We discuss several implications of these results, such as the need for an interactive mechanism to help developers fix defects.

"Learning isn’t done to you; it’s something you do. Mastering knowledge alone, without experience, isn’t effective. A random approach, without goals and feedback, tends to give random results.” This post tries to explain some techniques to learn more effectively.

This Book aims to provide solutions to the most common problems encountered by the inexperienced (accidental) DBA. How does it fare?

We all know that the generated-on-demand messages like WM_MOUSE­MOVE, WM_PAINT, and WM_TIMER messages are not posted into the queue when the corresponding event occurs, but rather are generated by Get­Message or Peek­Message when they detect that they are about to conclude that there is no message to return and the generated-on-demand message can be returned. When this happens, the window manager creates the message on the fly, posts it into the queue, and hey, how about that, the Get­Message or Peek­Message function now has a message to return!

Scott talks to Security Researcher and Web Developer Troy Hunt about the state of web security. Should I worry when I connect to a wireless network at a coffee shop? How much should I worry and what can I do to protect myself? As a web developer what are the things we most often forget?

We were building a prototype system to demonstrate the capabilities of a technical standard and the data that it contained. Our main stakeholders, both relatively non-technical knew the type of audience the prototype was intended to influence and making a technical standard come to life with an interactive prototype was our remit.

Agile teams are usually cross functional, which means that they have people with different competencies like developers and testers. Collaboration between the team members helps to make teams successful. Let’s take a look at what scrum masters can do to help testers and developers to work together in agile teams, and improve collaboration

Fluent API is a flexible way to define mapping between POCO classes used in Entity Framework Code first. This article demonstrates how to use Fluent API in an ASP.NET MVC application

One of my least favorite parts of nearly every programming language I’ve spent much time with has been the ubiquitous switch statement. Though it does serve a useful purpose in some compiled languages, I think switch is a clunky eyesore in most code. Its structure is prone to taking root and only growing larger and more cumbersome over time.

Some years ago I said that JavaScript is the Assembly Language of the Web. In fact, lots of people said it, because it's true. Later, some folks disagreed, saying that this is an inaccurate analogy. Of course, it is inaccurate because it's an analogy. That said, as analogies go, it's pretty good. Sure, assemblers are architecture and processor specific. Maybe "JavaScript is the Web's Bytecode" is better. At the very least, JavaScript is a totally reasonable compile target.

I’m writing this post in an apt state: low-sleep, busy, disorientated, and interrupted. I try all the remedies: Pomodoro, working in coffee shops, headphones, and avoiding work until being distraction free in the late night.

After a year of working with a large AngularJS project, I thought I’d share a few of the lessons that I learned in the process. Firstly, I love AngularJS. It suits my needs exceedingly well, and I expect it will be my goto for the forseeable future when I need a solid framework for “thick client” single page applications. It’s awesome. The team working on it is world class, the community is fantastic, and it combines a killer combo of functionality for building web apps.

So you just built some cool scalable multithreaded feature into your webapp with web workers. Maybe it’s machine learning-based webcam object recognition—or a compression algorithm like LZMA2 that runs faster with the more cores that you have. Now, all you have to do is simply set the number of worker threads to use the user’s CPU as efficiently as possible…

Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview.

Allowing the text of one frame to recall the retained data of ancestor frames without harming efficiency, thread safety, or recurrence.

The 'better' an open source project is technically, the more people use it. That's what I used to think. But lately I have gotten doubts: Why are some projects more successful than others? Are there technical reasons or is it something else? How do some get 10000 Github followers and others languish in obscurity? I was hoping there would be a nice, clear answer. I think there is - unfortunately not the one I was hoping for.

Prototyping, proof-of-concept, and cross-platform tools are generating buzz among mobile developers

Book Review of “ZeroMQ” by Pieter Hintjens from O'Reilly Media

Mozilla's Firefox OS delivers an easy way to develop and market apps for Android and the upcoming Mozilla-specific phone. Mike Riley takes a first look at developing apps for the platform.

This is the most common requirement on most of the Exchange servers hosted on IIS. The server admins configure an http to https redirect. Today I will be discussing few ways of doing this. I will keep updating this document as I find more ways to do so. I am considering OWA as a sub application under IIS for all the below examples. Here is the structuring of the Web Site:

The idea of “Failure Demand” comes from systems thinker, John Seddon, who describes it as “unnecessary burden on the system.” By looking at removing failure demand on a system, you free up more capacity to focus on value added work. Much of failure demand also maps to the lead concept of “waste” although not all “waste” is the same as failure demand.

As I explained in this post, the framework provides a set of installers for registering components against interfaces in the container. Another powerful tool in the composition framework is the ContentFactory. This provides methods for registering and getting content based on a contentType string. When getting content, if the contentType is not found in the container, it will try to fallback using substrings of contentType by progressively removing sections after a .

I recently created a Windows Azure Storage Account without an Affinity Group and was faced with the task of migrating the data to a newly created Windows Azure Storage Account which belongs to the Affinity Group used by the project’s Cloud Services.

Closures are a powerful JavaScript feature: If a function leaves the place where it was created, it still has access to all variables that existed at that place. This blog post explains how closures work and why one has to be careful w.r.t. inadvertent sharing of variables

Because our customers are software developers and testers, we get to learn from them nearly everyday. Sometimes they even teach us things about our own tools that we didn’t know! That happened at StarEAST a few weeks ago with a feature of WebLoadUI Pro, our load testing tool for Web applications.