I’ve been trying for MONTHS to get the very excellent XDebug PHP extension, written and maintained the PHP Jedi Master, Derick Rethans. XDebug offers some serious debugging capabilities to PHP that are second to none. It also offers some excellent profiling tools, which I should really make better use of in development. It’s easy to see [...]
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A virtualized development environment
November 27th, 2009
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For quite sometime now, I’ve been developing all the projects I’ve been working on directly on my machine. This is handy for a number of reasons, the most important of those reasons being that I don’t have to be online while I’m working and I don’t have to upload to any servers.
Dealing with older browsers
May 26th, 2009
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After working in the web development industry for the last 6 years or so, dealing with older browsers that lack decent support for CSS and Javascript is something I face and deal with on a near-daily basis. Why near-daily? Well, I do a lot of Server side development which tends to be browser agnostic.
Dealing with [...]
CSS Hacks
April 17th, 2009
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Recently, I read a blog posted by an old workmate in New Zealand about CSS Hacks. More specifically, it dealt with CSS rendering differences between IE7, IE6 and browsers that actually render CSS correctly (ie. Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome… to name a big ones).
Big wheels keep on turning
October 31st, 2008
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These last few weeks, I’ve been working away on a couple of projects that have REALLY made me appreciate just how important good architecture and planning really is, even with the smallest of projects.
phpUnderControl – Continuous Integration
October 19th, 2008
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Well, over the last 3 days or so, I’ve been doing some serious unit testing with PHPUnit. Unfortunately, I didn’t start writing any serious tests until two days AFTER I started having problems testing my class hierarchy.
One of the problems that arose while I was writing the first couple of unit tests, was I realized [...]
PHP Data Access Layer
October 13th, 2008
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For some time I’ve been toying with the idea of building my own, custom data access layer. Sure there are plenty out there. Some of them are HUGE (just think PEAR::DB, or ADOdb), which isn’t a bad thing in and of itself if, and only if, they still perform well. I believe ADOdb performs pretty [...]
Upcoming ideas and projects…
October 12th, 2008
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Lately, I’ve been toying with the idea of developing a bunch of tools that will make my professional life just a little bit easier to manage. The most important of these is a timesheeting system and an automated invoicing system.
