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[nycphp-talk] Learning to program the right way

David Mintz david at davidmintz.org
Fri Jan 27 10:14:29 EST 2012


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Rukbat <rukbatsramblings at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/27/2012 9:34 AM, David Mintz wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> As a perpetual wannabe (day job that is formally not IT-related, but
>> self-appointed self-taught coder and general-purpose geek for our federal
>> court interpreters' office), I have stumbled and fumbled and learned the
>> hard way for years. One thing I still haven't taken the time to master is
>> proper use of a debugger, so I still rely too heavily on friends like echo
>> and print_r(). I could use a good tutorial or online course in that.
>>
>>
> Agreed - and if you don't run Firebug and FirePHP you should install them
> and learn how to use them.  FirePHP is an easy to learn and very powerful
> debugging tool.  And it could use a good tutorial - the site seems to be
> aimed at the experienced professional.



I could not possibly imagine living without Firebug and FirePHP. I am
thinking more along the lines of XDebug.


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David Mintz
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