I'm a semi-experienced C++ programmer trying to pick up C# and I'm having a bit of trouble trying to find the C# equivalent of a 'cout'. I'm trying to develop a Windows Forms application which I ...

First off, if you’re looking at that title and thinking it’s flame-bait, please hold off. What [Ihsan Kehribar] is working with is another way to get some feedback for what’s going on with your ...

How much of your time do you spend writing code? How much of your time you spend fixing code?Which would you rather be doing? This is a no-brainer, right? Before discussing the tools you do not have ...

I’ll confess. Although printf-style debugging has a bad rep, I find myself turning to it on occasion. Sure, printf is expensive and brings in a lot of code, but if you have the space and time to use ...

The error messages that are displayed when a script malfunctions range from effective to practically useless — especially when the scripts themselves are long ...

Thomas Gleixner has discovered that being the maintainer of a core kernel infrastructure module can bring some special challenges. Whenever somebody's kernel oopses in the timer code, for example, ...

As a programmer, I’m aware that I tend to make mistakes — and why not? Even programmers are human. Some errors are detected during code compilation, while others ...

Bug tracking is often one of the most difficult processes in software development. Users may have situations different from developers, and bugs that are a big problem for users may not even be ...