NYC++: November 2023 at MongoDB ft., Greg Law

Come to our November 2023 meetup! MongoDB will be welcoming us back into their offices, with food sponsored by Undo.

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Featured Speaker: Greg Law
Talk Title: How to be Better at Debugging Linux C++ Code

Description
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. Fortunately, there is more help available than you might have thought. GDB is much more powerful than most people realise; Valgrind and Address Sanitizer can catch many common bugs before they wreak havoc; time-travel debugging can turn even the most intractable nightmarish bugs into pussycats. This fast-paced talk is light on slides and heavy on demos to show you what's available and how to use it. Familiarity with the tools available to you is an essential part of being a great programmer; you will leave this talk at least one step closer to programming zen.

Speaker Bio
Greg is the founder of Undo. He is a coder at heart, but likes to bridge the gap between the business and software worlds. (Sadly, these days most of Greg’s coding is done on airplanes).

Greg has 20 years’ experience in the software industry and has held development and management roles at companies including the pioneering British computer firm Acorn, as well as fast-growing start ups, NexWave and Solarflare. It was at Acorn that Greg met Julian and on evenings and weekends, they invented the core technology that would eventually become UndoDB. Greg left Solarflare in 2012 to perform a dual CEO/CTO role. Greg has overseen the company as it transitioned from his garden shed to a scaling, award-winning business.

Greg holds a PhD from City University, London and was nominated for the 2001 British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award. He lives in Cambridge, UK with his wife and two children and in his spare time, catches up on email.