Last night, I lost a few hours and two kilogramms of nerves to solve the problems I didn’t even supposed to have. Something was wrong with the debugger and I couldn’t get the job done as debugger was highly uncooperative. Some of the issues were:

• Clicking on one line to toggle breakpoint, it appears in another
• Debugger skips the lines
• Changes in code sometimes doesnt’t effect the results in the firefox
• Feeling of a Gremlim infestation of your putter.

Some of you may laugh, but for the certain things, I didn’t have any knowledge of, and I didn’t find it anywhere, until my collegue Henrique Marino came to explain me how to end the suffering.

So, hereby I share it with you.

1. If you have a CVS controlled code, with a branches, be sure that compiler is set to the particular branch that you work on at the moment. Go to (eclipse) Project -> Properties, select Flex Compiler and see what is written in “Additional compiler arguments”. Problem is probably there. This is the reason of debugger skipping the lines, if it is set wrongly.
2. Close all projects except the one you use at the moment. Right click on a project and select “Close unrelated projects”
3. If you use Jetty, since it’s not doing boring and time consuming deployment as JBoss, it creates another flaw: cache might not be cleaned. Go to Firefox, Tools -> Web developer -> Disable -> Disable cache.

This will kill the Gremlin(s).

I hope this post will shorten one’s suffering.