Two phrases often heard around the computing halls are the phrases “hard wired” and “soft coded”. If something in an application is hard coded, it is bad – or so goes the consensus. Hard coding ...

While it's good that more remote sensors are communicating with each other, in some cases providing sensitive information in real time, bad security practices among manufacturers of those devices ...

From Juniper to Fortinet and Cisco, a lot of companies have been cited for having shipped products that contain hard-coded passcodes, which poses security risks to the enterprise. This common ...

What's it like to work at Microsoft? Better still, what do the people who write software at Microsoft actually do? This annotated collection of software development columns, originally written for ...

Agile software development is not just about agile principles and practices. To be successful in releasing software that positively impacts end-users, addresses technical debt, and deploys reliably, ...