Dr Chip's Place

My website used to be carried by HostFast. Due to a persistent inability on their part to make my website publically available over a period of three weeks I ended up moving my website to HostGator. This situation has affected this website and several email addresses that I used. So I've been busy reconstructing my website on its new host and may have additional issues to address (missing pix, bad links, etc) -- so I hope you will bear with me while I get things working again. CHECKING

Under SwirlsInstall you'll find directions on how to install Swirls. Swirls is a new computer squares program for Square Dancing. Swirls supports couples and singles, does not require computer operators for Square Dancing festivals, and is extremely fast. You can quickly learn Swirls using its tutorials.

The Simple Sockets Library makes streaming sockets easy to use, and helps programmers avoid some common pitfalls (address in use, slow packet throughput, incomplete reads/writes, etc). Check it out!

The inline debugger is my favorite tool for figuring out how to fix software bugs. Most debuggers are external -- gdb, dbx, etc. They are superb at examining core dumps, but executing code a few lines at a time is tedious. My debugger allows one to select, at runtime, whether debugging is activated on a function by function basis and at programmer-specified detail levels. Plus, it also handles both threads and multi-process style programming.