debugger

Thank you for letting me lurk on this list for the past year.

I do most of my work in Vim, but use Eclipse plus XDebug when I need to step through code. Unfortunately, I find it to be very fragile. XDebug doesn't like symlinks, and Eclipse's ability to stop at breakpoints disappears if I update anything in my toolchain. I recently broke my environment again, and haven't figured out how to get it functional.

What better options are there?

From the reviews I have read, the Zend debugger doesn't appear any more reliable. Do any of you use it?

Is Netbeans more dependable?

Hi,

Imagine being able to teach someone to review/create patches, without having to teach them to setup a LAMP development environment.
Imagine windows and mac users, friends, learning together to do (blank) with a virtual machine development environment.

I created a virtualbox Drupal development image. I wanted a simple platform to collaborate with several others on for a project. I thought others might benefit from the work.

Features include:
- Slim lightweight image (OS+tools are under 1gig)
- LAMP with APC
- Netbeans and Eclipse with debugging