Found about 120 opinions about Debugging.
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What tools are in your Tcl debugging toolbox?
(14 Oct 2008)
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:56:24 -0700 (PDT), "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden@gmail.com
I was just thinking about this topic over the weekend. Right now, I
use TclDevKit's tclchecker, frink (even though it doesn't appear to
have been updated in the past 4 years), nagelfar, tkinspect, and
putting in a variety of puts statements, and the occasional use of
dbx.
I've tried a few of the single stepping debuggers - the one that works
with Komodo was pretty nice - but many times I feel so frustrated by
t...
2.
ReadyNAS Wiki? (looking for opinions)
(20 Nov 2008)
I see that Infrant has as wiki which is rather slim on useful information (although all the add-ons are listed there to some degree).
I've been perusing the forums trying to find answers to some of the problems I'm having and I keep running into really useful posts on how to do stuff. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to have a wiki to collect all this information. the guys over at nas-central .(org) have something going, but it seems to be focused on development.
All the how-to's tricks, debug...
3.
How does one teach how to debug?
(08 Dec 2008)
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:14:30 -0800 (PST), PJ on Development <pjondevelopment@gmail.com
Hi, All...
First of all, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this, if so,
please point me in the right direction.
Recently I was given the task to coordinate a group of developers,
wich is a great step on my career at the company I'm working.
The problem is that I have stumbled upon two developers that lack the
basic debugging skills.
For instance, today, one of them asked me why the SQL Server w...
4.
Programming by guessing/hoping Overflow
(08 Dec 2008)
The Visual Studio IDE gives the developer almost instant feedback as to whether or not a block of code is correct or a program runs correctly. This usually leads to programming by guessing... The programmer thinks to themselves, "Maybe the intellisense will tell me it's right if I do it like this..." or "Maybe if I change this constant to that or change this loop and click play it'll work..."
I usually fall into this mode when I'm tired or have my mind on other issues (i.e. just don't care ATM)....
5.
PSPFreak.de DEV Team: Quiz Beta 1
(30 Dec 2008)
Hi,
I was just aghast from what people are releasing here. These Quizs are just debugging style and...I don't want to think about it now...
well I made a Quiz on my own, it's not finished yet but I don't want to continue the project so I can release it, too
it says PSPFreak.de DEV Team but the only developer am I and the only designer is XAN
it's based on a SQLite Database and has some features like point system, random question order and so on
you can make your own database if you want to, I ma...
6.
Are there any situations where a effect on a "get" or "calculate" operation...
(10 Dec 2008)
I've just finished a six hour debugging session for a weird UI effect where I found that my favorite framework's implementation of an interface function called "getVisibleRegion" disabled some UI feature (and apparently forgot to restore it).
I've filed a bug with the framework, but this made me think about proper design: under what conditions is it legitimate to have any side-effects on an operation with a name that implies a mere calculation/getting operation?
For those interested in the actua...
7.
Debugging in Python
(29 Nov 2008)
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:59:58 -0800 (PST), Vicent Giner <vginer@gmail.com
Hello again.
Thank you for the answers I got to my previous question. All of them
were very useful to me.
I want to know if I have understood well the way I can work with
Python.
As far as I've understood, [the free version of] ActivePython is just
a [good, ready-to-work] Python distribution. Also, it contains and
editor, PythonWin Editor.
Has that editor the ability of performing good debugging tasks? I
mean, is...
8.
What do you think about using the Project Euler website as a candidate pr...
(11 Oct 2008)
I've read a thread around here about people using FizzBuzz to filter out completely clueless candidates for programming positions.
To be honest, I find it hard to believe many candidates won't pass that (although i CAN believe it), but one way or another, even for a very simple first filter, it seems like that bar it set too low.
I recently stumbled into Project Euler's site, and I find it very interesting. I know NOTHING about math, and I've found myself solving many of those problems anyway. N...
9.
PHP kit
(04 Nov 2008)
This is a very spur of the moment idea and really only applies to PHP users and freelancers (because there's loads... here)
I'm thinking about making an include kit (like the prototype.js for ajax, etc.) that you include into your code to make your life easier.
Over the years you find some things which get a bit repetitive and could be done faster so I've came up with a few things my kit could have...
Ajax capability (prototype.js, etc. is too complicated for everyday quick updaters but this wou...
10.
Indenting for code-generation - Stack Overflow
(20 Oct 2008)
Often, programmers write code that generates other code.
(The technical term is metaprogramming, but it is more common than merely cross-compilers; think about every PHP web-page that generates HTML or every XSLT file.)
One area I find challenging is coming up with techniques to ensure that both the hand-written source file, and the computer-generated object file are clearly indented to aid debugging. The two goals often seem to be competing.
I find this particularly challenging in the PHP/HTML...