Rinse, Lather, Reboot
If you use Smalltalk, you just put a halt right there in the SSP page - into the normal Smalltalk debugger you go. Over in ASP Land, it's a trifle more complicated than that. But hey, rebooting every few minutes probably aids your productivity, right?
Smalltalk, on the page: <% self halt. %>
or, over in ASP-Land:
Here's the drill. What I discovered yesterday while frustrated enough to physically throw my laptop out the nearest window.
- Start debugger.
- Wait until the process load starts, then HANGS.
- Open Task Manager.
- KILL aspnet_wp.exe.
- New aspnet_wp.exe starts.
- Process continues to load in debugger.
ICK! I had this problem while working at Paramount. I never did figure out the real fix for it. This will work for a couple of debugging sessions, then you get to reboot the machine.
And they call this the future... You could also ponder Seaside...
Comments
Re: Rinse, Lather, Reboot
[Justin Rudd] December 23, 2004 17:04:28.150
I think this is probably environmental more than technology related. I worked on a large .NET project for 2 years. I rebooted my dev box 6 times. 3 of those times were company mandated (we moved to a different building and service pack installs). The other 3 were because of brownouts in Phoenix during a heatwave. But in between those, I had successfully debugged hundreds of times without a single problem.
Granted, self halt is much nicer...