http://www.paulbutcher.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:27:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was at Jedi for a seat fitting on Friday (sitting in a plastic bag full of expanding foam - a sensation very similar to having wet yourself :-)) and I've just got around to uploading the photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=154574&id=522871533&l=b23b84a19c Very little's changed from the car that I wrote off, so it shouldn't ... http://www.paulbutcher.com/2010/02/almost-ready-to-hit-the-track/ A must have book for anyone writing programs. — www.felgall.com Overall, this book is going to be a huge win, and I think it’s a worthy successor to the Release It! reputation. Development managers and team leads should get a copy for the junior developers on their team as a Christmas gift, ... http://www.paulbutcher.com/2010/02/debug-it-review-roundup/ Subject to change, but I'm assured that no changes are expected. All meetings are double-headers: 10/11 April - Silverstone National 8/9 May - Croft 29 May - Rockingham (single qualifier) 12/13 June - Brands Hatch 14 August - Oulton Park International (single qualifier) 11/12 September - Cadwell Park 23/24 October - Snetterton Apparently there's a chance that we ... http://www.paulbutcher.com/2010/01/formula-jedi-2010-draft-calendar/ Debug It! is making its way around the world, as this review by Luiz Marques in Brazil demonstrates. Luiz is kind enough to say: While I was familiar with many of the practices discussed in the book ... I learned quite a few new things. He goes on to say: Well worth the time, ... http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/12/debug-it-in-brazil/ You're recovering from a major operation—which nursing unit do you choose? One that reports an error once every 500 patient days, or one that reports an error once every 50 days? What if I were to tell you that in the first unit, which on the face of things makes 10 ... http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/12/forgive-and-remember/ MobileMe has always been something of a disappointment to me. It's so close to great, and yet falls short: Push e-mail to my iPhone is great, but not without spam filtering or rule support. iDisk should be a great way to keep the files that I'm working on in sync between my ... http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/11/dropbox-what-mobileme-should-have-been/ Sample source for section 10.3 "Resource Leaks and Exception Handling" is online here. It's setup to run in Visual C++ 2008, but should be relatively easy to port to other environments. Any questions, you know where I am! http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/11/debug-it-sample-code/ Ted Neward has just published a review of Debug It! on his blog. His summary is: Overall, this book is going to be a huge win, and I think it's a worthy successor to the Release It! reputation. Development managers and team leads should get a copy for the junior developers on ... http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/11/ted-neward-reviews-debug-it/ Krzysztof Koźmic has just published a review of Debug It! on devlicio.us: http://devlicio.us/blogs/krzysztof_kozmic/archive/2009/08/30/book-review-debug-it-find-repair-and-prevent-bugs-in-your-code.aspx Within the review, he says: I know that this book influenced the way I work now, and there aren’t many books I could say something like this about. Which is the best compliment I can imagine as an author. Very many ... http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/08/debug-it-reviewed-on-devlicious/ The first couple of reviews of Debug It! have recently been published: Book Review: Debug It! Debug it! A Book on Software Debugging http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/07/first-reviews-of-debug-it/