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MacGDBp Kills PHP Bugs Dead!
Bothered with pesky PHP bugs? Grab a can of MacGDBp and exterminate those bugs FAST!18 year-old Beantown open source whiz Robert Sesek has announced that he'll be releasing his MacGDBp project bright and early on Tuesday, June 17 at his Blue Static website.
MacGDBp builds on the open source Xdebug application to provide a native Cocoa Leopard-only app for remote debugging of PHP scripts. Connect to your running PHP script and you can do instruction stepping to see how your script is working. You can set breakpoints, view the current function call stack, and look at all local variable values.
Robert noted that MacGDBp is designed to be very familiar to anyone who has spent time using the Xcode debugger. He's releasing the app under the GNU GPL version 2, which (duh) means it is available at no cost.
If you do any work with PHP (hey, I'm constantly customizing WordPress myself), MacGDBp may be your new best friend. Be sure to set an iCal alarm for Tuesday morning and get your copy of MacGDBp.
Thank you, Robert, for telling us about your app!
Updated to add correct date
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mark said 11:20AM on 6-16-2008
Non-released software is not news to me. Please let us know when it is available.
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Hobbes said 11:48AM on 6-16-2008
June 18 of what year? If if it is 2008 then it's not June 18th, it's June 17th. Unless I'm the one with the wrong calendar.
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Kris said 12:47PM on 6-16-2008
Tomorrow is the 17th of June.
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Nick said 4:57PM on 6-16-2008
"He's releasing the app under the GNU GPL version 2, which (duh) means it is available at no cost."
Actually, the two aren't necessarily connected. You're free to charge for GPL-ed software, you just can't restrict access to the source code. Not that the majority of GPL-ed projects aren't also free of charge, but still.
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Dom said 6:28PM on 6-16-2008
Is this a paid ad? Because it certainly sounds like one.
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Steven Sande said 7:26PM on 6-16-2008
No, I'm just doing my part to support open source software, which most reasonable people usually like the computer press to do. I seriously doubt if an 18 year old programmer who gives away his product is going to be able to pay for advertising, so what's wrong with giving him a little free PR?
Seriously - lighten up!
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A Mac OCR developer said 10:52PM on 6-16-2008
Great timing! I'm doing a project with the CakePHP framework.
CakePHP is interesting way to rapidly develop web-based applications with a database (e.g., MySQL). It shares some concepts that should be familiar to Cocoa programmers, such as the model-view-controller paradigm.
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