Note: this is not a tutorial on what XDebug is and how it exactly works, or an install howto. If you want that, then please read this post on box.net. This post is more like a 'declaration of awesomeness'. I just wanted to blog about it - and I think this things needs more 'advertising'. Maybe this illustration will give someone who's googling for 'vim' and 'xdebug' a still better idea what this is about.

My story:

I have my own 'ShortURL service' now!

But, very much in the Roderik spirit, when investigating this one task, I discovered that it could be done better if I tackled another task first. But I wanted that other thing done right, so I had to do another thing at the same time. Etc.

Continuing on the 'battle with technology':

First of all: I've stumbled over a recent much-commented blog post from Jason Kasper titled "I think I'm tired of Desktop Linux". Which airs the same sentiments I uttered in my last post here. He also knows he won't ditch Linux - but is really tired of stuff breaking all the time.

[ Dear diary.... Yeah, I know. This is another way-too-long pointless blog. But I can't stop writing when I start. And I might find it funny to look back in a few years, at how my 'battles' have evolved... ]

Technology is wonderful.

Trying to get technology working exactly like I want it to, is a whole lot more frustrating.

I created a Drupal repository for myself, and am putting it up for general use by whoever wants.

There are two Drupal branches for now, available at bzr://bzr.wyz.biz/drupal/6-downloads and bzr://bzr.wyz.biz/drupal/6-patched . There's a web interface for casual browsing at http://bzr.wyz.biz/.

(Hey - I couldn't resist picking this hostname. 3*3 letters, of which 3 z's and 'one and a half' vowel. Isn't it just perfect? )

Why this repository:

...mainly from the perspective of a Drupal developer.

In november 2008, I was going to compare version control systems, to give input on which system my employer was going to use for its toolchain. We never really got to a proper decision about this, but it led to me settling on one in my personal business. I'll document reasons for choosing my current one, so I may look at them later and see if anything's changed. (This may grow into a number of evolving blog posts about the same subject.)

I'm a happy Debian user since 1997 and my friends are too, so I've never really looked at other distributions.

Debian Xen comes with good instructions including a config file, for installing a DomU/guest system. So until now, I just followed the instructions and never found out the nitty gritty of how an image is actually booted.

This page is growing slowly, very slowly...

For now, the 'stuff' is 'stuff I programmed'.

The most important part is some MSX stuff I wrote a long long time ago, in a life far far away, which some people asked for. I'm in the process of going through my old files and seeing what I can put online here. No promises on a timeline...

Hi, MSX lovers around the world! Look, I have an MSX page too! Sooooo retro! Aint I cool?

Eh, no, I'm not an active MSX user anymore. I sold mine in 1998 and hardly touched an MSX emulator since. But 3 years later, several people asked me for sources of stuff I'd written, so I dug them up and put them here. (What I could recover, which isn't much -- because a few months before that, I seem to have lost the backup of my MSX harddisk! AARGH!)