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We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here

Whenever the regular expression topic comes up, I unashamedly recommend the best tool on the market for parsing and building regular expressions -- RegexBuddy. But there's one tiny problem. RegexBuddy costs money. I've always encountered vague resistance when recommending commercial tools that I considered best of

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The Cost of Complexity

There’s an interesting eleven page article in the Economist considering the cost of software complexity: The economic costs of IT complexity are hard to quantify but probably exorbitant. The Standish Group, a research outfit that tracks corporate IT purchases, has found that 66% of all IT projects either fail