The Complexity ＆ Tedium of Software Engineering

The following is a index of essays that record the tedium and complexity of software engineering.

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Emacs

• A Exhibition of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode
• A Emacs Frustration (blogger package)
• Emacs's Menu Usability Problem
• Emacs Spell Checker Problems
• A Record of Frustration in IT Industry
• Complexity of Software Engineering; Emacs, Unicode, Unison
• Emacs grep Problem in Windows
• Emacs Cygwin gunzip Problem

unix

• UNIX Tar Problem: File Length Truncation, Unicode Name Support
• Hunspell Path Pain
• Mac OS X SSH Session Disconnection
• Software Dependency Complexity: Fink, Unison
• What's the Max Number of Directories a Directory Can Have?
• Unix zip Utility Problem
• Mac OS X Changes To Unix
• Unicode BOM Byte Order Mark Hack

other

• Google Earth KML Validation Fuckup
• HTML Correctness and Validators
• URL Percent Encoding and Unicode
• URL Percent Encoding and Ampersand Char
• Graphics Programing Pains
• AutoHotkey Path Problem; Windows Shortcut Path
• HTML5 Doctype, Validation, X-UA-Compatible, and Why Do I Hate Hackers

The Tech Geekers & Software Engineering

Programing Languages