It really blew my mind when Paul Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > I had volunteered (emailed festies list) a talk on "Designing and Writing Robust
> > Software. Making Debugging Easier". I learned Magic Point and have a small
> > collection of slides ready to go.
> > [SNIP]
>
> Sounds interesting. Any clues on what techniques were going to be featured
> in this talk, any reference books/websites? I don't think I can wait for
> the talk :-)
About Magic Point?? Its easy, just have a look at a couple of the examples :-).
For the robust code thing There are a couple of Miscorosft Press books which
are actually quite good:
Steve C McConnell, "Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction"
Steve Maguire, "Writing Solid Code : Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free
C Programs"
Steve C McConnell, "Rapid Development : Taming Wild Software Schedules"
Don't spend money on these, I didn't. Find some windows weenie who owns them
and borrow them. Don't want to add to the beasts's coffers.
These two are also good (feel free to spend money on them):
Kernighan and Pike, "The Practice of Programming", Addisson Wesley
Kent Beck, "Extreme Programming Explained", Addisson Wesley
I really like most (not all) of the ideas of extreme programming. As an at-home
Free Software hacker I don't have the resources to do the pair programming that XP
is based around.
However, I have implemented most of the ideas I was going to deal with in my
libsndfile project:
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/
Check it out for some clues.
I'm going to keep hacking on this talk until the next codefest. This will
improve it considerably :-).
Cheers,
Erik
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