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2007

Online and offline development with the YUI and Charles (via) Stuart Colville shows how the Charles debugging proxy can be used to serve up hosted YUI files while developing offline.

# 15th May 2007, 2:41 pm / offline, stuart-colville, yui, charles, proxy, debugging, javascript

How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express. Microsoft’s best kept secret: a decent free debugger for Internet Explorer that doesn’t require you to install Microsoft Office.

# 2nd May 2007, 2:06 pm / visualwebdeveloperexpress, ie, debugging, microsoft, javascript

The joy of pdb.set_trace(). I use nosetests --pdb-failures as my main entrypoint for Python debugging—it starts the debugger at the first failing test.

# 25th April 2007, 11:37 pm / pdb, python, debugging, testing, nose

2005

Safari 1.3 has a JavaScript Console

My single biggest complaint about Safari in the past has been its terrible support for JavaScript debugging. Safari 1.3 has just been released, and tucked away in the Debug menu is a brand new JavaScript console option. It’s not as good as the Firefox equivalent (it throws up far too many “Undefined value, line: 0” errors for my liking) but it’s a big step in the right direction.

5:06 pm / 16th April 2005 / debugging, javascript, safari

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