Thursday, November 14, 2002

Distributed Programming Runtime Systems: Inside Rotor Gary Nutt. University of Colorado "This is a hands-on book that focuses on the internals of a CLI implementation on a UNIX platform" Cool! This morning Google led me to this book.  There are several chapters online too. I only had time to glance at them this morning, but looks like good stuff. Check out chapter 3 for a nice overview of the VES.   [Managed Space] 11:35:15 AM

Writing Secure Code This book provided a few new insights, but nothing earth-shattering.  It's a good read for newer programmers, but [good] seasoned programmers will have already run into a lot of the described issues and learned from their mistakes. [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog] I agree that its quite basic. However, judging from the amount of buffer overruns that are seen in everyday C/C++ code, and the fact that Buffer Overrun checks had to be put into Everett C++, I don't at all agree that many programmers are writing C/C++ write code that doesn't have these problems (or even aware). Heck, to some extent Java and C#/.NET exist for large reasons because of the failure of C/C++ programmers to write good safe code. 9:30:16 AM