Archive for October, 2008

The psychology of debugging

Monday, October 6th, 2008

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by Esparta"][/caption] Debugging is a very different task from coding and it benefits from a different mindset.  Finding bugs can take time and can involve a lot of trial, error and testing of different thoughts as to what might be going wrong, because there are lots ...

How to Optimise code

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by NathanFromDeVryEET"][/caption] We've covered the theory of optimisation and how to write a profiler in previous articles.  This article is about specific optimisations that you can use to make your code go faster or use less resources. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts ...