Archive: debugging

Ever need to quickly test some HTML that you copied from some where? If you have Firebug installed, you can open a new tab, go the the HTML tab in Firebug, click edit and paste your HTML and Firefox will render it. This is faster than having to open a text editor, paste the contents [...]

If you are a windows user, you may be familiar with the Beyond Compare programme which is used to compare two text files. This can be an invaluable tool when you are debugging or tracking changes as it highlights for you any differences between two text files. For Ubuntu, there is an excellent programme called [...]

When coding PHP, or more frequently when trying to customise or fix someone elses code, it can sometimes be tricky to figure out exactly what is going wrong. In this kind of situation, it is often neccessary to go through the flow of the script and view the contents of the various strings and arrays [...]