Emptyhammock

Quite a while back I had signed up for some Coursera offerings which were off in the distant future. Around ten days ago I started getting boatloads of e-mails as several of the classes started. I’ve had plenty to keep me busy, including preparation for a couple of upcoming …

Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity

After playing for familiarity comes the real work: listening critically and fixing the bugs, one at a time. This is obvious, but too often it isn’t the way we approach a mediocre level of performance. It takes time to resolve, but …

A couple of weeks ago I started playing around on Windows to learn how to get backtraces programatically, as the first step to getting mod_whatkilledus and mod_backtrace working on that platform.

This afternoon I finished testing a rewrite of the two modules and hurriedly put together a distribution zip and …

Yesterday morning I started playing with a complete rewrite of mod_whatkilledus and mod_backtrace. I have a handful of goals for the rewrite, but the largest one is to have the functionality available on the Windows platform.

I started with trying to get a backtrace for a crashing module on Windows …