Highlights

These are some of the more substantial blog posts I’ve written over the years that might have some lasting value, at least for my ego :-).

Very long posts, kind of like white papers:

• Thoughts on debugger design.

Behind the scenes in Developer Tools Technology:

• Compiler runtime libraries in Solaris
• Unreliable malloc interposition
• XML Experiments with Dwarf data
• stabs loading algorithms in dbx

Developer Tools philosophy:

• Trade-offs between Enterprise and Developer environments
• Taxonomy for Multi-Threaded Tools
• Is CMT just like MT?

Software Philosophy:

• Online Identity and Pseudonyms
• Licensing and Copyright
• Online Identity Part 1
• Online Identity Part 2

debugging tips:

• Customized print routines for C++ objects
• See more source in dbx
• Importing type information into dbx
• Using dbx and libumem to find memory bugs
• Tree structured system call traces