I use MacOS X for most of my development work, but part of my job is writing apps that run on all major Unixes and Win32. Most of the time bugs and memleaks are "portable", meaning that they appear on all platforms in the same way and fixing them on ...

In MySQL Proxy 0.8 we are added a multi-threaded network-subsystem allowing several networks events be processed in parallel. Early benchmarks show that what we have in trunk basicly works.

But the benchmarks weren't as good as we expected. That's the time where you prepare to get dirty ...

While developing mysql-proxy I sometimes have to step-by-step refactoring that usually result in unstable code for a while until the unit-tests are happy again.

When a unit-test fails I usually use gdb as a wrapper and let it create a stack-trace for me:

$ gdb --command=backtrace.gdb --args /path/to ...

After seeing strange crashes in xmlFreeTextWriter() on only one platform oldag and me dove into wonders of shared linking.

<oldag> just sit right back, and you'll hear a tale
<oldag> a tale of a faitful trip
<oldag> if not for the courage of the fearless crew (oldag and jan ...

Lua is a great programming language and I use it as embedded scripting language in

• MySQL Proxy
• wormhole Storage Engine
• lighttpd

What impresses me most it's flexibility. What ever I come up with is only a few lines away ... and I have crazy ideas. Like profiling lua scripts with ...