Good Design or Smart Engineering?

This is one question that haunts (new) software engineers day after day. We learned from the days of BASIC to Java and .NET that goto is an incarnation of devil itself, but we find goto in code written by the so called ‘elite’ programmers. What does this mean? Was all that computer science we learned […]

Apache 2 on Fedora Core 4

Recently while installing Apache 2 web server on a Fedora Core 4 machine, I ran into some very peculiar problems. Apache would compile cleanly, install perfectly but when I would start the web server it would fail complaing about, failed to load shared library (some ldap and others). After much hunting and googling, i found […]