How to debug long running programs
I recently chased down a crash in a software running on a large test case. The fix surprisingly is a one-liner in an area of code which has been touched only four times in last
Continue reading »I recently chased down a crash in a software running on a large test case. The fix surprisingly is a one-liner in an area of code which has been touched only four times in last
Continue reading »I just attended the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing in Orlando, Florida. I volunteered to help at the Outreachy booth and Outreachy sponsored my conference registration and travel cost. Here’s a list
Continue reading »I use emacs and xcsope and I’ve faced this weird issue of “no source files found” when trying to use xcsope on a new source code directory. Somehow cscope doesn’t find the source files if
Continue reading »In the last few years, I met many women who were either on a break from their career in the software industry or were planning to take one. It’s not unusual to take a break
Continue reading »Monday : Worked on the presentation “Life of a C Program” and presented it in the evening. Tuesday : Paired with May to discuss the steps in “Life of a C Program” and in the
Continue reading »I am fascinated by the debuggers. I love them so much that I wrote a small and very basic debugger as one of my projects recently. In this post I am going to write down
Continue reading »Day 1: Gone for an interview Day 2: Paired with Mike and Dan to write up the IngestorTest unit test. Did the code dojo and an exercism challenge on Go. Day 3: Paired with Mike
Continue reading »Day 1: First day of the Fall 2 batch. Quite a busy and exhausting day. Started reading the chapter on Linker from “Computer Systems – A Programmer’s Perspective”. Gave a talk from the delightful article
Continue reading »Day 1: Practiced some graph and tree algorithms problems. Got to know about the Linux stack frames from the Hardware Software Interface course. Wrote the code mentioned in the first part of the debugging tutorial.
Continue reading »I just learned this cool bit manipulation staff yesterday and I am dying to write it down. Here it is – Let’s write a program to decide if a number is a power of 2.
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