Playing whackamole with development software

Playing whackamole with development software

Development can sometimes feel like a game of Whackamole. You find one thing that doesn’t work, fix it, and then move on — only to find that the next thing also doesn’t work. Today, I’ve spent a good part of my day trying to finally get my...
Tweaking Xdebug to allow deep function nesting

Tweaking Xdebug to allow deep function nesting

Just got an annoying error that said Xdebug only allowed 100 levels of function nesting. Well, actually, the error didn’t say anything about the limitation being Xdebug, so I spent quite awhile trying to track down the issue. It turns out that PHP doesn’t...