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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
Tamper Data Firefox Extension – is it worth it?
As you can probably tell from my last test of a firefox extension here, I am constantly looking for new tools to make my job more accurate (see: lazier). Another similar extension I came across is Tamper Data. Tamper Data … Continue reading
Load Time Analyzer for Firefox
So, I started looking at a few load time analyzers for my sites – and I found an interesting plugin for firefox. I wasn’t too entirely sure what I was going to find – but I figured I’d try it … Continue reading