Re: Linux novice question.
>>"Interesting you should say that. This suggests you are looking at design patterns rather than coding errors."
Actually, though I've never put it in those terms, the older I get the more that is my first approach to reviewing code. Reviewing other people's work is one of the things I do professionally these days (I consider myself very lucky, btw) and I do start with this if I'm beginning at a high enough level and it's not just "is this okay to push live?"
I would be very, very interested in any automated tools or approach to testing design patterns. I suspect like many problems, once we can formally define it, automating it will be straight-forward. And that would be a very big deal. (I got modded down furiously the other day, btw, for suggesting that within my lifetime computers would one day be better programmers than humans).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
