Comments on: Quiet

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:27:23 +0000

Great application. Installed it yesterday and got it running in minutes. I was debugging some threading issues in Pyro with Eclipse in vain. I found the problem in minutes with Winpdb. Thanks for a great tool.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:28:35 +0000

Hi, I have been using winpdb for about a year or two and it’s great. I do have a few feature requests, however.

* Add watch windows on variables or expressions like in other debuggers
* When a variable’s value changes from the last time it was displayed, it should be highlighted in red. Makes it easier to see what has changed as you step through the source.

thanks!
michael

By: Alan Fairless

Alan Fairless — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:23:16 +0000

We’ve used winpdb quite a bit with our project.

We first found it when we were trying to debug why an FCGI kept crashing. It turns out an upstream library was slowly leaking threads — and would eventually exceed the limit and crash. This would have been very difficult to track down without winpdb’s ability to attach to and debug a daemon process.

Lately I’ve mainly been using it for inspecting the internals of our desktop UI (we ship builds for Linux, Mac, and Windows) and winpdb has greatly improved the process.

My apologies for withholding feedback until the present. My guess is winpdb’s happy users represent a silent majority. In any case, thanks for the great tool.

By: Dirk Rothe

Dirk Rothe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:04:43 +0000

Yea, maybe Winpdb just works. (at least for me )

CherryPy and Django are two different things. Django is a complete WebFramework with templating, orm, auth and admin stuff.
CherryPy is (only) a straightforward HTTP Server where you have to decide yourself how to produce your pages - from whatever data backend.

CherryPy Stuff:
http://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/content/overview
(only in german, sorry)

By: nir

nir — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:39:32 +0000

Hi Eric,

I don’t know CherryPy but I have tried Django and liked a lot what I saw. It is simple, quick and fun to learn and just feels right.

Still I am going after PHP for educational reasons. It impressed me as the Latin of the web development world.

Thanks for the tip about the Zend framework. I will give it a read and also to Symfony and Drupal.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:56:23 +0000

Yes, I really appreciate the debugger! It’s a great tool!!! Very easy to use.

I’ve done some PHP too, but have recently picked up Python and I’m looking to use CherryPy. Any thoughts or suggestions?

I’m basically looking to use CherryPy to implement a web service front-end to my python code/classes.

On the PHP side, you may want to have a look at the Zend Framework. It’s not just MVC, but includes other useful modules you can leverage.

If you run the latest version of PHP (currently 5.2.6), you can actually do some pretty cool, standard type of object-oriented patterns with it (using interfaces, etc.), but I’ve certainly found it lacking in some areas.

Thanks again for sharing, -e

By: THC

THC — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:17:26 +0000

We have the completly same opinion about PHP and Ruby. I did try to work with PHP too, but in the end i realized what a complete idiot i was for using that thing when i already knew one of the greatest languages for web development: Python … now i use the magical Pylons framework and i mourn the months wasted on php.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:12:47 +0000

Well I’d like to thank you for Winpb - Its a great debugger! - I use it to debug my Django apps