Today Vlad came to Chris’ and my Mozilla classes to give a talk on debugging techniques in Mozilla. I don’t think I need to spend time telling you that Vlad knows how to do some cool things with debugging tools. However, you might not know what a great teacher he is: Vlad has a real gift for expressing complex ideas to people starting out, and he’s able to walk you through compelling examples on the way to greater understanding.
During his talk he showed the students how to use VS.NET’s debugger, gdb and dtrace on Mac, firebug, and even spent some time discussing chronomancer. Watching a master navigate his way through various scenarios, and discuss the merits of one tool over another for a particular problem, was incredibly helpful to the students. I can’t wait to get this talk posted!
Speaking of which, Chris just let me know that Ted’s (build system) and Mark’s (Firefox extensions) talks have just been posted.
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Was this taped, too, and will it be posted anywhere? I’d be really interested in watching it.
So do I. Could you please give me some video record if there is. Thanks!
Yes, we filmed this. It will go in http://sparc.senecacollege.ca/pub/mozilla.lecture/mozilla-20073/ when it’s ready, but I’ll blog it too. It was a great talk.
This is a great resource thank you.
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[...] There are numerous videos on-line showing him use his tool of choice to draw things (and if I could bend wp to my will and embed them, I would!). I love this. No, I’m not secretly an illustrator, or even capable of drawing a straight line with any version of Photoshop. What I love is that this is an example something we need so much more of on the web, and in our community: demonstrations of how people do what they do. Not tutorials. Not HOWTOs. I’m talking about you doing what you love to do, and pressing record before you start (if you can find awesome music like his too, so much the better!) It was great when Vlad came and talked about debugging, because he didn’t just talk about it, he did it live. New developers need to see how the zen masters use their editors, debuggers, operating systems, and whatever else they’ll share. [...]