Posts by John Robbins

Jeff Atwood has a wonderful post concerning my discussion (and others) of Edit and Continue.  While his analogy to game saving is not quite parallel, he make some points worth reading and thinking about.  Make sure you read the comments also.  The one thing to keep in mind is that while many of the comments are talking…

What a week!  Devscovery Redmond was the best one yet!  It seems only rocket scientists came to the conference because I’ve never been asked so many thought provoking and just plain hard questions at a developer gathering.  I sure hope I gave everyone who attended my talks their money’s worth because I was learning a…

You were wondering if you were ever going to see another entry about the book writing process, right? It’s been a wild summer. Far too many things to do and not enough time to do them. I vow from here on out not to use sleeping or eating as a crutch. It’ll be all book…

Josh Einstein sent me a mail about his amazing TerminalTraceListener. If you add TerminalTraceListener to your application, you can telnet into your application and monitor tracing live no matter where it is.  How amazingly cool is that!?  Josh also added a second TraceListener, SyslogTraceListener, that pumps the traces to Kiwi Syslog Daemon.  Both of Josh’s…

Fresh and tasty WinDBG bits were just released.  Lots of interesting tidbits are described in the What’s New section.  Unfortunately, many of the new items are undocumented so it’s going to take playing with the new commands/features to see what they do.  The new DBH.EXE looks like a very interesting symbol dumping and analysis tool.

What a couple of weeks.  I haven’t gotten as much done on the book as I wanted because of two things, some work with an interesting client, and a new machine.  The client work was fun, but I was at their site, which happened to be in Knoxville, TN.  It was fun staying with Jeff…

I’ve been sending out email to the folks I’ve been adding to the Review Crew list.  What an amazing response!  If you haven’t gotten an email, don’t fret.  I saved all of the emails I got and will be adding more folks as the months go by so you may still end up on the…

(Maybe I’ll get lucky and have Robert Scoble pick this up so it really gets wide distribution. 😉   Work’s begun on the third edition of my debugging book.  I might be opening myself up to tons of mail, but I’m looking for a larger group of reviewers than I’ve had in the past.  I’d…