During the furious early-morning typings on a dim computer screen, a bug is born within a nest of brackets. Jumbled inconspicuously between various foggy lines of late night code, the bug sleeps ...

Computer users who are taking advantage of Chromium-based browsers like Chrome, Edge, and others on Windows 10 should be aware of a bug. The bug is creating a file called "debug.log" in placing the ...

Hmm.. well I just spent about 8 hours on the stupidest bug... compared to 4 hours last week for a really subtle bug which really should have taken that long. The worst are those hidden ones that muck ...

Cisco has fixed a critical security flaw discovered in the Cisco Redundancy Configuration Manager (RCM) for Cisco StarOS Software during internal security testing. The vulnerability, tracked as ...

Cisco issued a critical fix for a flaw in its Cisco RCM for Cisco StarOS Software that could give attackers RCE on the application with root-level privileges. Cisco released a security update warning ...

Programming is a constant game of mental Jenga: one line of code stacked upon another, building a tower of code you hope is robust enough not to come crashing down. But it always does, as code never ...

Bugs are more manageable than you think. Tracking their patterns will help you get them under control. It seemed a simple project, really. The 32KB ROM constraint set a reasonable limit on firmware ...

In a relatively recent blog post, I discussed why I believe that more software developers should write blogs. In that post, I mentioned that I believe that some developers do not write blogs because ...

Debug often has been labeled the curse of management and schedules. It is considered unpredictable and often can happen close to the end of the development cycle, or even after – leading to frantic ...

When you're making a huge game like Skyrim, some bugs are going to slip through the cracks. Talking to Jason Schreier on Kotaku's Splitscreen podcast, Skyrim's lead programmer Brett Douville talks ...