An open source, Linux-based web development package that’s crammed with features. Sukrit Dhandhania takes Quanta Plus for a test drive…

For quick and effortless web development - Quanta Plus is steadily becoming a worthwhile competitor to the commercial web editors on the market.

Quanta is a web development IDE for KDE which comes as part of the kdewebdev package.

Typically, there are two main ways of debugging server-side code: you can utilize an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with a built-in debugger or log and perform your debugging processes in a web browser.

Thai systems integrator Norhtec is preparing to release a sub-$300 ultra-mini PC (UMPC) laptop based on a Quanta design. Aimed at the developing-country market, the so-called Gecko Laptop is being built by Quanta and runs Linpus Linux Lite, a new distribution designed for small-screen mini-PCs.

Learning from other people's code

The reason I want this debugging feature so hard is that I like to learn from other people's code. The thing I like so much about running an open source OS, is that I can just read the sources for programs on my system and try to figure out what they do and how they do it

LinuxCertified, Inc. announced a two day, hands-on course that acquaints atendees with Linux kernel documentation, kernel configuration, kernel debugging, kernel measurement and other tools. This course trains developers in effective debugging and performance measurement and improvement techniques for Linux kernel. This class is scheduled for October 29th - October 30th, 2009.

This installment will touch on how user space can interact with Ftrace, faster ways of stopping the trace, debugging a crash, and finding what kernel functions are the biggest stack hogs.

This week, we'll pick up where we left off last week and continue discussing simple kernel and module debugging using seq_file-based proc files.