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Advanced Front-end Debugging

Panos Astithas presents some of the debugging, profiling and tracing tools available to web developers today.

Panos Astithas
on Dec 17, 2013

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Code Execution as Data

Zach Tellman discusses instrumenting and analyzing running systems using real world examples from Factual's production systems.

Zach Tellman
on Aug 22, 2013

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Pontificating Quantification

Daniel Spiewak and Aaron Bedra take a look at code verifying starting with Tony Hoare’s paper on testing(1969), type theory, and language-integrated proof systems.

Aaron Bedra Daniel Spiewak
on Nov 29, 2012

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Firefox Developer Tools

Joe Walker covers present and future Firefox development tools for editing, inspection, history and control.

Joe Walker
on Oct 23, 2012

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Distributed Apps: The Joys of Testing and Debugging

Chris Houser discusses stack traces in Clojure and introduces a library for investigating activity across multiple threads and servers, plus a technique for reproducing race conditions.

Chris Houser
on Oct 12, 2012

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38:59
And It All Went Horribly Wrong: Debugging Production Systems

Bryan Cantrill discusses debugging production systems using post-mortem debugging and dynamic instrumentation, with a bit of history and an introduction to useful debugging tools.

Bryan Cantrill
on Mar 29, 2012

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57:57
Effective Use of FindBugs in Large Software Development Efforts

William Pugh explains how to use FindBugs, a Java static code analysis tool, to discover bugs. The talk covers general issues regarding code bugs with advice on how to make sure you get rid of them.

Bill Pugh
on Mar 28, 2012

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Software Quality - You Know It When You See It

Erik Dörnenburg shares techniques for estimating code quality by collecting and analyzing data using the toxicity chart, metrics tree maps, size&complexity pyramid, complexity view, code city, etc.

Erik Dörnenburg
on Mar 21, 2012

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Software Naturalism - Embracing the Real Behind the Ideal

Michael Feathers analyzes real code bases concluding that code is not nearly as beautiful as designers aspire to, discussing the everyday decisions that alter the code bit by bit.

Michael Feathers
on Feb 17, 2012

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Stop the Software Architecture Erosion

Bernhard Merkle advices on preventing architectural degradation of a project by using tools for constant monitoring of the code, exemplifying with an analysis of Ant, Findbugs and Eclipse.

Bernhard Merkle
on Sep 16, 2011

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A Crash Course in Modern Hardware

Cliff Click discusses the Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, Instruction-Level Parallelism, pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, cache misses, memory performance, and tips to improve performance.

Cliff Click
on Jan 12, 2010

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Controlling Your Architecture

Magnus Robertsson shows how to control the code architecture to avoid an architectural drift leading to a big-ball-of-mud: peer review, code analysis, and zero tolerance to warnings and errors.

Magnus Robertsson
on Oct 22, 2009

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