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Category Archives: IDE and Web Dev Tools
XDebug and Eclipse PDT on Windows – From Start to Finish
XDebug and Eclipse PDT on Windows – From Start to Finish With our recent upgrade to php at “the triangle,” I felt it was time to start working on using a debugging and code profiling tool. When I say felt … Continue reading
Eclipse Testing with TPTP – help me?
I recently came across this tutorial here about Testing with TPTP- and I’m confused. Whats the benefit of this type of testing (um… creating JAVA code for a JUnit test… right?) compared to running some PHPUnit, Selenium and AB (from … Continue reading
Use MySQL Gui tools to securely connect to remote database
This particular example is going to be based on a connection from Windows XP using Putty, MySQL GUI tools and Dreamhost. Quick summary of issue: I want to use MySQL Query Browser to access my database on my dreamhost account. … Continue reading
Tools of the trade
I just thought I’d drop some useful links and tools your way for those beginning and non-tool-cist peoples: http://getfirebug.com/ used for js/css/dom debugging – additionally, even Yahoo is building upon this. I’ve used this a lot for AJAX request debugging … Continue reading
Master the 'Run As' option in Eclipse PDT with PHP
Most of my development in Eclipse PDT with the results tested outside of it – using firefox. PDT has a few options in the Run… menu: PHP Script PHP Webpage Web Browser So, lets take some time to look into … Continue reading
Live Combined Error Reporting for Apache and PHP during Development
So many times during development, I’ve missed little PHP errors because they were 1) on a processing page that was redirected or 2) output inside of a html tag – and rendered invisible. From time to time, I have to … Continue reading
Two New useful external tools for Eclipse
In my posting about Integrating PHPDocumentor into Eclipse, I touched on External Tools a bit. The combination of external batch files, the external tools extra options and the console has made my life easier. I’m using two new additional batch … Continue reading
Eclipse Integration with Tortoise SVN
I generally don’t like to be tied to a specific IDE when developing. Additionally, I like to have my choice in using tools to manage my source control (tortoisesvn, svn command line, etc). I just think this is the open-source … Continue reading
Show the right files in PHP Explorer
After I installed Eclipse PDT, I had two project navigators. I closed the native one and kept open the PHP Explorer. PHP Explorer showed my php, css, js, etc, files. It also puts a plus sign to the left of … Continue reading
Spell Checking in Eclipse PDT
Although I’d like to pretend that my side jobs always are pure programming, but alas, not the case. There are times when the users send word docs to me and I have to convert them to html. Now, even these … Continue reading