Most of the installation instructions for the ruby debugger that I found were out of date for Windows, so I thought it would be useful to document how I got it working. First, you should start with Ruby installed from the RubyInstaller. If you have any problems with getting debugging working, I would suggest installing [...]

It seems that whenever I set up a new computer to debug PHP, I need to Google around to remind myself of the steps, so I thought I would document them here for reference. The following is for an XAMPP Apache/PHP install, but the basic steps are the same for any PHP install. Install and [...]

Real developers live on the command line. Way back in 1996, Microsoft released the Command Prompt Here Power Toy to ease their pain. Industrious developers who preferred the Visual Studio command prompt took it and adopted it to run a Visual Studio command prompt with all of the paths to Visual Studio and .NET tools [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of managed C++ programming lately and I had forgotten what a pain it is switching back and forth between the header file and source file.  Back in the days of Visual Studio 6 I had a macro that switched between the CPP and H file, so I went googling, but [...]

Here is a cool Visual Studio feature that almost nobody knows about. If you want to open up a file in your solution, but can’t be bothered to dig down through your projects and folders to find it, try this, Click in the Find box in the toolbar, Type >of followed by a space, then [...]