I thought this was a good post on how to recognize and hire good software developers if you aren’t a software developer yourself. Or even if you are a software developer yourself. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2008–02.html#4)
Jeff started a blog thread about handling out-of-memory. For anyone who’s interested in this, check out D‑Bus (or rather, the libdbus C implementation of D‑Bus) for an example of nontrivial code that attempts to handle out-of-memory. I would wildly guess that the OOM handling adds 30–40% or so to the number of lines of code, […]