books: debugging the ...     books:       Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving (Hacks)9 reviews chromatic, Damian Conway, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Excellent Compendium of Perl Tricks To be completely honest, this isn't the book I thought it was going to be. Most O'Reilly Hacks books start off pretty simply and in a few chapters take you to the further reaches of their subject area. Whilst this is a great way to quickly get a good taste of a particular topic, it has the occasional disadvantage that for subjects that you know well, the first couple of chapters can seem a bit ...             Programming Perl (3rd Edition)110 reviews Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2000 It is difficult to study perl using only this book. It is difficult to study perl using only this book. Learning perl is the best way to study perl. This book should be a reference of perl. And there are many examples on the Net. You can use these examples to modify for your purpose. Sometimes, you should study how to debbug perl.             Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 11 review Dmitry Vostokov Opentask, 2008 An excellent Windows debugging resource for the real world! As an Escalation Engineer for a large software company, live debugging and post-mortem memory dump analysis is a part of my daily routine. I often find myself debugging some strange/unique problems, where I am sometimes stuck staring at stacktraces wondering where do I go next... In these times I would often find myself searching the web, trying to find more information, which would mostly leadme ...             The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler3 reviews Chris Eagle No Starch Press, 2008 The IDA Pro Book Review I was able to pick up a pre-released copy of The IDA Pro book at Defcon in the vendor area, thanks to Adam from No Starch. This book is not an introduction to reverse engineering, its a hard core manual for IDA Pro. IDA Pro is a critical weapon in any reverser's arsenal, so proficiency in this tool is paramount to your success in reverse engineering. If you are new to IDA Pro you need this book, ...             Learning GNU Emacs, Third Edition24 reviews Debra Cameron, James Elliott, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 A Professional Book for Professional Programmers Most of the Unix/Linux senior level Wizzards that I know use Emacs and swear by it. There are others (vi users especially) who swear at it, but that's another story. Emacs is a huge package and is growing bigger. Although you can consider it a text editor, it's a big, massive package that does a lot more than just edit text. At the start of the book the authors comment "Many people think that ...             Debugging16 reviews David, J Agans Amacom, 2006 Critical work for anyone who works on any sort of system, machine, or software This book is absolutely indispensable for anyone working in any job where things occasionally work in an unexpected manner. It's concise, funny, well-written, and full of immensely useful tips on how to go about debugging problems. One of the great things about this book is that it's generalistic in nature, not specific. Agans's decades of troubleshooting experience has given him great ...             Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)18 reviews Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007 Unequaled I have little to add to the effusive praise of previous reviewers. This is a one-of-kind book. An instant classic. Beware, however. As others have noted, this is definitely an _advanced_ book. If you're not comfortable with arcane command syntax, bits and bytes, and such this will be painful to incomprehensible for you. On the other hand, I dare say you will never be a true Master ...             Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications4 reviews John Robbins Microsoft Press, 2006 An Excellent Source of Tips, Tricks, and How-To's As somebody who debugs applications for a living, I found this an outstanding resource to both refresh my memory, give me new tips and tricks, and provide a frame of reference for sharing this knowledge with others. If you do not already have a symbol server set up for your organization, then you should order this book today for the simple step-by-step instructions for how to do this. This is an ...             Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks)12 reviews Robert Mecklenburg O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 Excellent resource for programmers Make has been an icon in the GNU / Linux world for over thirty years now, and continues to be one of the most used utilities to ever be released on the platform. A good number of other projects have risen to take its place as an automated-build utility, but as of yet, none have been able to unseat Make. Some see Make as being too arcane and finicky to survive in the once it is confronted with ...             The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse Norman Matloff, Peter Jay Salzman No Starch Press, 2008 Debugging is crucial to successful software development, but even many experienced programmers find it challenging. Sophisticated debugging tools are available, yet it may be difficult to determine which features are useful in which situations. The Art of Debugging is your guide to making the debugging process more efficient and effective. The Art of Debugging illustrates the use three of the most popular debugging tools on Linux/Unix ...             The Art of Software Testing, Second Edition13 reviews Glenford J. Myers Wiley, 2004 The basic text for software testing The Art of Software Testing provides the novice with the essentials for developing and implementing a comprehensive testing approach. It's also a valuable resource for those with experience. I dive into this book constantly. The premise is simple enough: How can you write effective test cases that adequately exercise your system requirements? Myers suggests that good software testing depends ...             The Developer's Guide to Debugging8 reviews Thorsten Grötker, Ulrich Holtmann, ... Springer, 2008 A compendium on debugging This book provides an excellent treatment of debugging techniques in C/C++ and is must-read for all serious software engineers. It contains practical advice and introduces a wide variety of debugging methods, ranging from the simple to the sophisticated. The book will prove valuable to the novice and the expert programmer alike. The illustrations and examples will be particularly useful to the ...             Secure Programming with Static Analysis (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series)10 reviews Brian Chess, Jacob West Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007 If your code must be secure, read this book Every software developer who has to write secure code should read this book. This book will tell you how to use static analysis tools to help you build more secure software. It's a great primer for software developers who are new to static analysis and for security practitioners who want to learn how recent advances in the field can improve their software. I reviewed an pre-release version. ...             Perl Template Toolkit3 reviews Darren Chamberlain, David Cross, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2003 good book for several audiences I picked up this book because I want to use a templateing system to produce web pages and I grok Perl pretty well. This book seems designed for at least two audiences, people who want to create something like a website using the TT and people who want to hack/extend the template toolkit. The book is a very gentle and seemingly thorough introduction and explanation. The authors write with ...             Valgrind 3.3 - Advanced Debugging and Profiling for GNU/Linux applications J Seward, N Nethercote, ... Network Theory Ltd., 2008 This manual describes how to use Valgrind, an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling GNU/Linux programs. Valgrind detects memory and threading bugs automatically, avoiding hours of frustrating bug-hunting and making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed profiling, to speed up your programs and reduce their memory usage. The Valgrind distribution provides five tools for debugging and profiling: ...             Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging5 reviews Andreas Zeller Morgan Kaufmann, 2005 Extremely thoughtful As a practionner I am delighted to see a systematic method applied to software. Too often is writing software compared to art or magic, while more often that not it is a matter of rigour, analysis and rational thinking (intuition does not hurt of course). The author attacks the problem of dealing with software defects with method and his analysis is sound. This book is a very welcome help to ...             BUGS in Writing, Revised Edition: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose (2nd Edition)18 reviews Lyn Dupre Addison-Wesley Professional, 1998 I don't know if it's art, but I liked it! I just recently finished a technical book and the book and Lyn's advice to be spot on. She flags the problems that I had with my writing style (or lack thereof). Her style of writing is quirky, but entertaining. I enjoyed it immensely. If I had bothered to read the book before I started righting my own book, I would have finished my book in much less time. A cautionary note: this book is ...             Mastering Perl8 reviews brian d foy O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 An excellent survey and a top pick for any Perl reference collection. MASTERING PERL is third in O'Reilly's series of Perl tutorials and is a top pick for collections strong in computer programming in general and Perl in particular. This is more than a collection of shortcuts and 'tricks': it covers the basics of using advanced expressions, avoiding common programming problems, fixing code without editing the original source, and more, and offers Perl users the ...             GDB Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))1 review Arnold Robbins O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 The free GDB Quick Reference is more useful In my opinion, the GDB quick reference that you can download for free is more useful. To go over the basics, this book is OK, but for daily lookup purposes, the quick reference is more useful. I purchased this book as a "filler" to reach over $25 for free shipping. I'm a software engineer and do use GDB frequently.             Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Management7 reviews Dorota Huizinga, Adam Kolawa Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, 2007 This offers a key to a missing link for software quality Automated Defect Prevention delivers a realistic approach to the nagging software quality problem. If you are responsible for developers who deliver business applications, you need to read this book. If you are an software architect or engineer, the book will offer a pragmatic road map to achieve incremental productivity gains within your software development lifecycle. 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