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Using a stackdump from Cygwin executable

So I wrote buggy code that occasionally crash ... and creates a stackdump file. Using addr2line I can figure out how the program got to the crash point by decoding the addresses on by one. Is there an alternative tool that can ease the debug using stack dumps? Is there a way to to load this information in Insight/Gdb? ...

Writing fool-proof applications vs writing for performance

I'm biased towards writing fool-proof applications. For example with PHP site, I validate all the inputs from client-side using JS. On the server-side I validate again. On both sides I do validation for emptiness, and other patterns (email, phone, url, number, etc). And then I strip malicious tags or characters, trim them (server-side). ...

Can you recommend some online resource that have deep insight for the form framework of symfony?

I'm now reading this tutorial: http://www.symfony-project.org/jobeet/1_4/Doctrine/en/10 But I want to know more of it under the hood,like the design pattern/principles. ...

How to change Motif theme in DDD and Insight to something more pleasant?

I have Tk version 8.5.3 installed, theming engine support added since 8.5. Still, I don't know how to use themes, default Motif is just ugly: Screenshot ...

General Patterns for Managing Random Configuration Variables

Being the one always trying to boil things down to common patterns, I'm having a hard time figuring out the best and/or recommended ways of managing all those random properties throughout an application. I am looking for some SO wisdom. What are the random properties I'm talking about? Here's a small list: favicon alt text for rando...

Reading Code - helpful visualizers and browser tools

Hi! I find myself reading 10 times more code than writing. My IDEs all are optimized to make me edit code - with completion, code assist, outlines etc. However if I'm checking out a completely new project: getting into the application's logics isn't optimized with these IDE features. Because I cannot extend what I don't fully understand...

Why do you love Ruby, [Other programming language]?

I've reached the point of burnout and I haven't even started my career. Whenever I look at C it looks nice and light and just clean until I start writing anything in it. C++ is just plain and simply ugly, I won't even say anything about PHP, Lua and Python kinda ok but quickly gets to the point where I just can't enjoy writing anything i...