Aaron Saray

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Tag Archives: IDE and Web Dev Tools

Remove .svn folders from Eclipse Project Explorer

It had been irritating to me seeing the .svn folders littered throughout my project workspace. In addition, they all show up in the search results… this can be irritating with the svn-base files that show the old version of the … Continue reading

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Count lines of code in Eclipse

When searching for how to count the lines of code I had in my project, I ran into this blog entry. While its a good start, it still gave me some inaccurate counts. I was getting inflated counts because of … Continue reading

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Fix: FirePHP not showing output in console in Firebug

When using FirePHP, I ran into this issue where I could not see the output of the debug information. All the documents I found kept suggesting that I had not enabled the Console tab for this particular site. I had … Continue reading

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Exploring MySQL in Eclipse PDT

As you probably know by now, I’m a huge fan of Eclipse PDT. Well, I wanted to stop using MySQL GUI tools for a bit and explore Eclipse tools. Get the SQL Explorer Plugin The first thing to do is … Continue reading

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Firebug for Internet Explorer

During the creation of my websites, I develop solely in Firefox. When it comes to testing, I run it through IE tester. One thing that I really miss is my Firebug. Enter Firebug Lite Firebug Lite is a stripped down … Continue reading

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Bluefish Editor could help you leak your PHP!

The BlueFish editor is a primarily linux based visual editor for various web languages. Visit the site for more… One thing I had noticed about a few projects I was working on was the presence of files named things like: … Continue reading

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Trac Bookmarklet: load ticket number easily

While communicating with other coworkers, they generally just give me a trac ticket # and not the full URL. And, as a lazy programmer, I hate typing in the full URL or loading up trac and searching the #. So, … Continue reading

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Eclipse PDT: Integrating Apache Bench for load testing

When I use an IDE, I expect for it to do everything I need for my project, from start to finish. As you may have read in earlier entries, I enjoy using Eclipse PDT. I think its time to include … Continue reading

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Convert from VMWare Player to VMWare Server

At superdev, we have a distribution of a gentoo image made with vmware workstation. This works fine in vmware player – but not the free vmware server – and I wanted to have vmware server running so I could have … Continue reading

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Useful Eclipse Plugin: Find a file name in project immediately

Unfortunately, at #superdev, there are times when the include_path in PHP is calculated. It is not always clear where to find a file. Other times there are just too many places to find the file. Because of this – and … Continue reading

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