The Debug Team Family Grows

As of 5:05 this morning, the Debug Team's family grew by one.

Congratulations Mike and Jen on your new baby boy!

Sean Robert Rennie
8.5 pounds, 21 inches

Remember, hyperlink debugging rocks

While the feature has been around since 3.3, I still consider hyperlink debugging one of the most awesome features of the JDT debugger.

Hyperlink debugging lets you very quickly step into a selected method. Previously, to step into a method you would have to use step over to the line you wanted then step into, or click on the method you wanted and hit step into selection. With hyperlink debugging you simply hit ctrl (or ctrl-alt, I'll explain in a moment), and click where you want to go.



Starting with next week's integration build, the hyperlink debug feature will use ctrl as it's activator (previous versions used ctrl-alt). This change was made because we were the only hyperlink action to have an activator other than ctrl. If there are multiple hyperlink actions available, a handy popup will let you choose which to use.

For those who want to keep the old way of doing things, you can change the setting back to ctrl-alt on the General > Appearence > Editors > Text Editors >Hyperlinking Preference Page. Because I am often debugging a target platform, I often need quick access to both open type and step into selection hyperlinks, so I have switched my preference. If you think that ctrl-alt should be the default, leave a comment here.

Funny Error Dialogs

I was working today when this gem showed up:



While wondering how much money the person that created this dialog got for using the word 'update' so many times, I clicked 'ok' and got this gem:



Its always funny to see posts about weird / bad dialogs (and messages) so I thought I would share these...

Another Succesful Tutorial

I've only been in Santa Clara for 24 hours or so, but I've already done so much and had a ton of fun.

First off, I had some time to bask in the sun. Compare...










The view from my balcony at home (at least there isn't much snow, unlike Ottawa)


The view from my hotel room in Santa Clara (oooh palm trees)

Second, I've met a ton of people who I interact with all the time on bug reports, but had never seen in person. Hopefully I left a good impression. Had a lot of fun at the blogger party as well.

















Finally, I helped present the two debug tutorials this morning and everything went perfectly. We covered a lot of material, and got some excellent questions. If you are building a debugger using our framework, make sure to let us know about it! We had several people come up and tell us how much they liked our presentation and how great their products are developing because of the debug framework, but it would be great to see them in action.

Tomorrow brings many more possibilities, with many talks, exciting BoFs, and some exercise.

Curtis