I was just reading over my post from yesterday — I didn’t mean it to come across as whiny. It was more of a cynical tone that I intended. Firefox and Firebug have saved me more trouble than they’ve caused, so it’s not a total bash against those two pieces of total garbage. ;)
Anyway, the point of this post was to say that I was hoping to make this more than a site in which I complain about stuff — and that I’m off to a terrific start! Also I wanted to list topics that I’ve been thinking of just today –
- Writing robust web apps is still a lot of work
- PHP ORMs are truly the work of Satan
- On a more personal level — My thoughts on why I feel like I don’t fit in with anyone.
- Taking pictures and doing stuff not computer related
- The ins and outs of some wordpress plugin I’m going to write.
- The process of converting a 2-D game from D3D to SDL.
Those are just some potential things to explore. Any other ideas?
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I don’t know how long this has been around (I think only since 3.x), but if you’re using Firebug…
- Open a site with javascript that you’re presumably trying to debug or are otherwise involved in some time sensitive development.
- Set a breakpoint in a script.
- Get the breakpoint to be reached, thus halting execution of the script.
- Find exactly what you’re looking for.
- Fix it in the code file you’re working on
- Refresh the page.
- Notice that none of the Javascript seems to be working — if the page even displays
- Remove the breakpoint and try again
- Copy the URL because you know you’re going to have to restart the browser
- Get a message about Firefox already running
- Open up your process manager and see Firefox using up 100% cpu and an enormous amount of memory
- End the process
- Start Firefox again
- Find out that your URL wasn’t copied
- ARGGHH
Note that this can be avoided by resuming the javascript engine before step 6 — but I never remember to do that.
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Working on getting this thing up and running…
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