Archive for November, 2007
On Dreaming in Code
As I noted previously, I recently gave a Tech Talk at Google on DTrace. When I gave the talk, I was in the middle of reading Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code, and (for whatever poorly thought-out reason) I elected to use my dissatisfaction with the book as an entree into DTrace. I think that my [...]
DTrace on QNX!
There are moments in anyone’s life that seem mundane at the time, but become pivotal in retrospect: that chance meeting of your spouse, or the job you applied for on a lark, or the inspirational course that you just stumbled upon. For me, one of those moments was in late December, 1993. I was a [...]