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Views on software from Bryan Cantrill's deck chair

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20070821 Tuesday August 21, 2007

 DTrace at Google

Recently, I gave a Tech Talk at Google on DTrace, the video for which is now online. If you've seen me present before and you don't want to suffer through the same tired anecdotes, arcane jokes, and disturbing rants, jump ahead to about 57:16 to see a demo of DTrace for Python -- and in particular John Levon's incredible Python ustack helper. You also might want to skip ahead to 1:10:46 for the Q&A -- any guesses what the first question was? (Hint: it was such an obvious question, both I and the room erupted with laughter.) Note that my rather candid answer to that question represents my opinion alone, and does not constitute legal advice -- and nor does it represent any sort of official position of Sun...

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20070802 Thursday August 02, 2007

 Caught on camera

Software is such an abstract domain that it is rare for a photograph to say much. But during his recent trip to OSCON, Adam snapped a photo that actually says quite a bit. For those who are curious, "jdub" is the nom de guerre of Jeff Waugh, who should really know better...

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