Coding Relic

When one has a core file, one runs gdb. Its simply the way things were Meant To Be, right? Yet gdb isn't the right tool for the job in a...

A backtrace is often the first step in debugging a problem. Generating a backtrace is generally thought of as a function of the debugger, on...

After chasing a pernicious bug long enough, there is a strong temptation to find a way to make it be someone else's problem for a while....

Today's article is a discussion about some of the infrastructure for running this site. So far as I can tell from the logs and analytics...

Exhibit A: a bottle warmer by munchkin , a company focussed mainly on baby products. You pour water into the base, put the bottle in the ...

I registered my domain in 1996, when Network Solutions was the only registrar and their domain registration forms were faxed in. Back then...

You know you're having a bad day when your backup software requires 83 Terabytes of free space in order to proceed. As it turns ou...

The Principle of the Conservation of Software Quality postulates that for every best practice there is an equal and opposite worst practic...

Programming languages are a voyeuristic pursuit for me, as my daily work consists entirely of C and assembly. Nonetheless it is quite clear ...

Has this ever happened to you? You allocate some sort of resource which needs to be released before returning from the function. You can put...

Ahh, printf. What would we do without printf, sprintf, etc? It makes it easy to format integers, floats, strings, MAC addresses ... Oh wait,...

The half-life of engineering knowledge is depressingly short. The old school way to stay current is via books covering technical topics, suc...

Today, Gentle Reader, we will examine the Bionic library, a slim libc developed by Google for use in the Android mobile software platform...