Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Erro... most widespread and critical programming errors that can... software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, a... exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently...
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Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY, also known as Single Point o... process philosophy aimed at reducing duplication, partic... computing. The philosophy emphasizes that information sh... duplicated, because duplication increases the difficulty... decrease cl

Magic debug values
Magic debug values are specific values written to memory ...
Since it is very unlikely, although possible, that a 32- ...
Famous and common examples include:
... in a live environment to reduce errors[citation needed].

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Jhilmil Jain , James H. Cross, II , T. Dean Hendrix , La ...
David C. Pheanis , John A. Jackson , Lance G. Johnson, D ...
Raphael Mannadiar , Hans Vangheluwe, Debugging in domain ...
... —Practice & Experience, v.33 n.7, p.637-672, June 200

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News reports such as this one indicate that the above nu ...
A man in the United States popped out to his local p ...
... hts about what programming error would have caused this?

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

That can’t happen.
That doesn’t happen on my machine.
That shouldn’t happen.
Why does that happen?
... How did that ever work?