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Jan02: Verity Stob
On occasion, Ms. Stob takes a look at the structure of important real-world applications. This month she examines the corporate automated telephony program, the subtleties of which are best shown with a state-transition diagram.
Open Saucery
Ms. Stob has decided to quit the cathedral and set up her stall in the bazaar.
Apr02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob
Ms. Stob was recently persuaded by a kind friend to watch Mike Leigh's film Topsy-Turvy on DVD, and now preaches Gilbert and Sullivan with the tiresome zest of the newly converted. And we seem to detect their influence in her work...
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Process
Forget stack traces and heap walkers. Verity Stob's new debugger is the first that can record the private thoughts of a running process. She has e-mailed us a sample dump of its output.
The New Adventures of Verity Stob
Fictionalised computer programs often bear little resemblance to their real life counterparts—which makes them the ideal basis of a pleasant pastime, claims Verity Stob.
The New Adventures of Verity Stob: Dick Puts Us Straight
Dick Loop-Invariant, the last mainframe programmer of The Old School, has recently retired to Duncardpunchin, a home on the coast for his ilk. He and his ilk now both live together happily with their life-long collection of unlikely rhymes from Marilyn Monroe songs, and when Verity went to meet him, Dick was delighted to reminisce, and to plug his book.
Soundtrack
Feel a bit of a fool burning your software onto CDs? Hard pressed to use even 10 percent of their capacity? Verity Stob, a veteran purchaser of movie DVDs laden with extras in the form of directors' and actors' effusive commentaries, proposes a novel solution.
They Made One Small Mistake
Fancy yourself as a Sherlock? Keep those little grey cells in tiptop condition by matching wits with Verity Stob. - Design
Stoblog
Ms Stob was the only tech journo in the whole world who had not experimented with the weblog (aka 'diary') format. Until now.
State of Decay
Verity Stob has developed a helpful index to gauge PC decrepitude. - C/C++
