--- title: "My Baby Hits The Road Tomorrow" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/16/my-baby-hits-the-road-tomorrow.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/16/my-baby-hits-the-road-tomorrow.html" published: "2003-06-16T14:58:00" updated: "2003-06-16T14:58:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Just wanted to brag a little - Tommorow I'm releasing an alpha version of our companie's latest tracing software.I built this thing entrely myself. It's mostly built using VB6, with the the remoting extentions built…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # My Baby Hits The Road Tomorrow By Roy Osherove June 16, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published June 16, 2003; technical details may be outdated. Just wanted to brag a little - Tommorow I'm releasing an alpha version of our companie's latest tracing software.I built this thing entrely myself. It's mostly built using VB6, with the the remoting extentions built using C# and interop. Right now the execs won't commit to a full .Net implementation of it. It's just too costly. Since it started out as a VB6 project, it will also finish this way. Among its features: - Tracing plugins for VB,C++ and .Net - Full docking,floating and auto-hide windows - Views of the trace data, each view uses a custom filter of what to show. - Views are grouped by Layouts which can be saved and restored - Layouts can be categorized and sorted(also saved) - customizable colors (and icons in later versions) - Remoting extentions to allow recieving traces from remote machines(via HTTP/TCP) Next versions will have - Custom actions on specific filter hits (example: If you encounter error level 3 - play \*this\* wav file) - Pluggable views to allow custom handling of recived traces - Reusable filters and views, shared between multiple layouts

I'll be releasing it for small amounts of production use tommorow. Hopefully, everything will go well... ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Jun 17, 2003 ### [More About Desktops](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/17/more-about-desktops.html) - Jun 17, 2003 ### ["How Do I Get There From Here?"](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/17/quothow-do-i-get-there-from-herequot.html) - Jun 15, 2003 ### [Late In The Evening](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/15/late-in-the-evening.html) - Jun 14, 2003 ### [Family Vs. Technology](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/14/family-vs-technology.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/