Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-developer-support/www/doc/index.adp =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-developer-support/www/doc/index.adp,v diff -u -r1.2.2.6 -r1.2.2.7 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-developer-support/www/doc/index.adp 9 Jun 2016 13:03:12 -0000 1.2.2.6 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-developer-support/www/doc/index.adp 5 Jul 2016 12:18:25 -0000 1.2.2.7 @@ -17,16 +17,16 @@

The Big Picture

Software development is a big feedback loop: a developer writes something, tests it, and then repeats until the results are -satisfactory. It's important to streamline this cycle by having a -development environment which makes it easy to analyze what the +satisfactory. It's important to streamline this cycle by having +a development environment which makes it easy to analyze what the software is doing under the hood.

Peeking Under the Hood

Our development environment previously consisted largely of Emacs, and tail -f /web/servername/log/servername-error.log. Now this has been augmented: ad_footer and ad_admin_footer now -display a link entitled Developer Information. (You can use -the ds_link procedure to generate the link yourself.) +display a link entitled Developer Information. (You can +use the ds_link procedure to generate the link yourself.) Following the link displays a screenful of information including: