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Re: Meeting. March 3rd. Reuven Lerner
Hi Reuven,
> > What would you like me to talk about?I generally prefer to talk
> > about some combination of databases, the Web, Perl, and "just-in-time"
> > manufacturing as applied to the Web, but let me know what is most
> > interesting and appropriate for people.
I'd most like to hear about development environments and techniques
for developing web applications. Things such as debugging and testing
are pretty well-known for standard applications -- you have the perl
debugger, DDD supports it for visual debugging (although I've never
suceeded to use it for more than half an hour sequentially without it
crashing my X server), incremental development (where you develop part
of your application and test it individually) is pretty well
understood -- but how do you do all this when you're writing code
that's going to run under a web server and you can't run it frontally?
I don't know of a better technique for debugging a web application
than inserting "print STDERR" statements in the code and examining the
error_log, but this is ridiculous. I'm sure that there are methods for
developing large-scale web applications, with all due complications,
and it must be pretty different from developing a standard app which
the programmers among us are presumably pretty familiar with. I'd like
to hear about your experience in this.
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