Tuesday, May 04, 2004

It's official: Julie is a .NET Rock Star DevSource interviews Julie Lerman and declares her a .NET Rock Star.  Well, I have several issues with this.  First, DevSource is a little late to the show since I declared this long ago and can prove it by our interview on Sys-Con Radio at PDC 2003.  Second, I can't understand why Julie did not mention how my interview propelled her into stardom. Congratulations to Julie, a genuine person who is a pleasure to know and associate with. 10:54:19 AM    comment []

Sasser: Not a threat to me! As I reported to my enterprise client site today, there was already a buzz about the Sasser worm.  And it was certainly on-site.  The good news was that I was luckily unaffected by the event.  The only reason that I know of for my fortune is that I am running Windows XP SP2. And here we'll go again.  "Windows is insecure!"  We'll hear it from a lot of ignorant sources.  But what they might not cover is that the vulnerability was disclosed last month and updates were provided. Bottom line: enable that built-in Windows firewall and you had no issues today. 1:05:52 AM    comment []

U.S. Coders As Capable As Offshore Counterparts Taken from a Peter Coffee column on May 3rd, ...Examining more than 100 projects coded by developers in India, Japan, the United States, and "Europe and other," the report tabulated an overall defect rate (errors found in the first year of use per thousand lines of source code) of 3 percent worldwide—that is, three defects per 100,000 lines. Regionally—may I have the envelope, please—India exceeded that average with 3.3 percent, compared with 3 percent for the United States. "Europe and other" did less well, at 5 percent, while Japan did impressively well, at only 0.5 percent... 12:11:09 AM    comment []

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