xdebug niceness

08 Jul 2003

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Logging and error handling are must-haves, not nice-to-haves, for any application infrastructure. While they were reasonably easy to set up, I'll hopefully document what I've done here sometime. But, one thing irritated me - not knowing anything about my calling function in PHP. Xdebug fixes that, allowing me to find out where certain SQL queries or similar operations are coming from. Points also go to PEAR's DB abstraction to make it easy to capture errant SQL queries based on query length and running time.

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

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