2006-04-22
Russ Beattie goes off the air
One of the more interesting blogs has closed its last page. Too bad. After going through the website, wiki, blog transformation process, maybe Russ is going to come up with a next greater way of publishing. Goodbye and good luck!
debugger experience
Three annoyances keep coming back to me (at least in the IDEA debugger):
I can't see the result of a method. If a method ends with "return expression;" I have to step out and hope that the caller stores the result in a variable or introduce an extra local myself.
I can't put breakpoints on expressions, just on lines. If I want to break on #doIt in "if(rarelyTrue) doIt();" I have to reformat the code or introduce a conditional breakpoint.
I can't identify objects very well. I catch myself writing down OIDs (x.y.z@1234) in order to spot them later in the session. It would be great if I could give an object a symbolic name which the debugger could show me later. JVMTI tags should be useful for that.
