A Gentle Introduction to Debugging

An airhacks.fm conversation with Shai Almog (@debugagent) about:

about the name Codename One, JavaLobby became DZone, JavaBlogs and java.net, joining lightrun and developer’s observability, the theory of debugging, lightrun: breakpoints which don’t break, debugging in production has access to the entire data, lightrun creates snapshots - breakpoints which don’t step, time travelling debugging, chrononsystems: DVR with Java, translate java runtimes to charts with appmap, the logging breakpoints: logpoints and tracepoints, exception breakpoints are hard to use, NetBeans debugger is great, exception breakpoints are useful with filters, field watchpoint is not a watch, renderers in Intellij, toString, performance and circular dependencies, memory debugging and MAT by SAP

Shai Almog on twitter: @debugagent