Comments on: A conversation with Partha Sundaram about software instrumentation http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/28/a-conversation-with-partha-sundaram-about-software-instrumentation/ Strategies for Internet citizens Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:06:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Aaron Johnson » Blog Archive » Links: 3-2-2007 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/28/a-conversation-with-partha-sundaram-about-software-instrumentation/#comment-1351 Aaron Johnson » Blog Archive » Links: 3-2-2007 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:48:28 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/28/a-conversation-with-partha-sundaram-about-software-instrumentation/#comment-1351 [...] A conversation with Partha Sundaram about software instrumentation « Jon Udell Quote: “SQM was formerly used on a per-application basis, but is now, in Vista, also a piece of core infrastructure that can be used to analyze how the operating system itself is being used in the field.” (categories: instrumentation sqm metrics analytics ) [...]

]]> By: Darius http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/28/a-conversation-with-partha-sundaram-about-software-instrumentation/#comment-1291 Darius Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:42:42 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/28/a-conversation-with-partha-sundaram-about-software-instrumentation/#comment-1291 Come to think of it, you can ask Avi how easy it would be for him to collect, aggregate, and publish/syndicate user's text/tag/widget/control use info in his Squeak/Smalltalk platform. Come to think of it, you can ask Avi how easy it would be for him to collect, aggregate, and publish/syndicate user’s text/tag/widget/control use info in his Squeak/Smalltalk platform.

]]> By: Darius http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/28/a-conversation-with-partha-sundaram-about-software-instrumentation/#comment-1290 Darius Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:32:27 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/02/28/a-conversation-with-partha-sundaram-about-software-instrumentation/#comment-1290 Hi Jon, When you speak about granularity, I think you're making a good case for dynamic languages' capabilities here, especially pure OOP ones like Smalltalk. Next time you talk with Avi Bryant, ask to see his Seaside web platform ... with profiling turned on. Since everything is an object, and Smalltalk's built in execution time profiling works on all objects, all Avi's team had to do was expose the built-in object profiling and he gets per page web server profiling for free that he can toggle on and off anytime while the application is running. The same profiling is easy to expose to utilizers of native OS GUI apps as well. Why shouldn't application utilizers have access to some/many/all of a programmer's tool set and/or allow them or trusted friends to build/share more elegant tools built on top of the programmers' tools? Yahoo Pipes would be so much more fun if it worked on all objects exposed in all apps. ;-) Darius Hi Jon,

When you speak about granularity, I think you’re making a good case for dynamic languages’ capabilities here, especially pure OOP ones like Smalltalk. Next time you talk with Avi Bryant, ask to see his Seaside web platform … with profiling turned on. Since everything is an object, and Smalltalk’s built in execution time profiling works on all objects, all Avi’s team had to do was expose the built-in object profiling and he gets per page web server profiling for free that he can toggle on and off anytime while the application is running. The same profiling is easy to expose to utilizers of native OS GUI apps as well. Why shouldn’t application utilizers have access to some/many/all of a programmer’s tool set and/or allow them or trusted friends to build/share more elegant tools built on top of the programmers’ tools? Yahoo Pipes would be so much more fun if it worked on all objects exposed in all apps. ;-)

Darius

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