Today I Learned
A collection of concise write-ups on small things I learn day to day across a variety of languages and technologies. These are mostly things I learn by working with smart people at GrammaTech.
A lot of what my current job encompasses is binary analysis. While I had a general understanding of binary programs via various hardware and machine organization courses, these document my attempts to take that knowledge to real programs.
If I were to pick one thing I'm bad at, it would be this. I've never had the patience to try and actually figure out what's going on through the different phases of compiling and linking. NO MORE!!!
SCONS is a build system that attempts to make all dependencies within a particular system explicit. By doing so, in theory, things like enviroment variables will no longer make/break a build. This enables greater portability from machine to machine.
A series of reminders/experiments when using git and git-svn
Things I wish someone had told me 3-4 years ago about GDB. There's a lot of good things about grad school, but on bad thing is that you have no idea stuff like this exists. More than anything I've learned that if you want it, it probably exists. You just have to find it.
- Skipping Useless Files While Debugging
- View Source Code While Debugging
- Flip through Different Views
- Working with Binary Code
I use VMs everywhere, and even from time to time enter VM inception. These are some small tips I picked up when working with VirtualBox VMs that make them easier to use.
I shamelessly stole this idea from jbranchaud/til who in turn shamelessly stole it from thoughtbot/til.
© 2015 Eric Rizzi
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