: About Me

I'm writing under a pseudonym, shouldn't be surprising regarding the fact many people like digging up "dirt" on you nowadays using Google and other Internet Search engines.

I'm a cranky programmer that loves to let my opinions be known. However, I do like sharing the wealth of knowledge I have accumulated even if it is in a non-traditional method of writing as far as the IT industry goes.

My passion is ...

Honesty.

I know too much about ...

How the world works.

My parents always told me ...

"Management."

My childhood ambition ...

Become an astronomer. Then I realized that involved at least 8 years of schooling. Later, meeting an Astrophysicist, I realized it would be a mindnumbingly boring job.

My favorite memory ...

Graduating College.

Why I write ...

Venting.

My first job ...

Webmaster of a small local realty.

My best moment ...

Getting hired at a job I knew I would love from day one.

Computers & Technology > Software & Web Development When to report a bug to a software company

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As a developer, I feel that it is everyone's responsibility to report bugs they find in software. Debugging software is a community effort with software users finding the bugs and the software developers fixing the bugs. However, as some of my colleagues will point out, the first thing you must do is as the question: is it really a bug? Could this be intended functionality? Is it merely not doing what *you* want it to be doing? Of course, it's always better to over-report bugs than let bugs go unreported. As soon as you encounter a bug, I recommend going immediately to that software author...

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