Stumbled across the Blueprint CSS framework the other day and have to say that I love the concept. I think we’ll be trying this out at work as a means to add some standardisation to CSS and to reduce the repetition of common tasks. The concept seems to sit well with out current development ethos, [...]
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A New PHP Development Environment
We’ve been threatening to overhaul our entire PHP development environment for some time, but it has always been something we have managed to put off for as long as possible. With Dreamweaver lagging further and further behind our requirements and the projects that we are dealing with at work getting more complex we have finally [...]
Posted in Code Tagged development, environment, framework, ide, php, programming, studio, subversion, xampp, zend 2 Comments
PHP IDEs - PHPed
Ho hum. I had this morning set aside to get stuck in to my look at PHP IDEs and I have to say that it hasn’t been the greatest success so far.
I roped in Tim at work to help me do some of the comparison and we spend a couple of hours trawling the IDE [...]
Surely Wordpress isn’t this shit.
OK, admittedly I’m only 2 days in to re-assessing Wordpress (plus a painful week of porting - thank the bigbang that I never posted more in the past), but I am seriously struggling to stay open minded. Wordpress is undoubtedly the industry leader in blogging packages, and I am determined to work out why, but [...]
PHP IDEs
One of the motivating factors of blowing the dust off my old blog is that I’m about to start investigating some possible changes to the way we develop websites at work. This is going to involve looking at quite a few solutions and I thought it might be interesting to get some thoughts on these [...]
Posted in Code Tagged development, eclipse, environment, komodo, php, phped, phpedit, phpidt, programming, studio, zend 1 Comment
Goodbye custom blog… hello Wordpress
In order to get this site up and running again I decided to scrap the custom blog/CMS system and just go with an off-the-shelf package. It would have been nice to have stuck it out with the bespoke system, but it was clear that I had time to either work on the system OR write [...]
Dreamweaver impending nightmare
I’ve been a fan of Dreamweaver, the web development app from Macromedia, since I first picked up a license for version 1.2 many moons back. Whilst it is far from perfect (a crappy FTP engine and laughable CSS support spring immediately to mind) it is still leaps and bounds ahead of competing packages.
Like many fans [...]
Essential Software
The new Dell laptop arrived today (very good, but bit too shiny for my liking - more of that another time). Once I had cleared off a few gig of useless crap that Dell had kindly installed, including 5 different AOL programs, I thought I’d load up some essential software before the holiday weekend.
Whilst I [...]
Session IDs in Google
Just spotted that a lot of pages of this site have ended up confined to the supplemental results of Google, effectively being dropped from the main results.
This is an annoying feature of Google in particular in that it does really know how to deal properly with sessions (a way of storing information, such as login [...]
Reskinned the site
Decided to re-skin this site today as I was getting bored by the grey style that I previously had. Turned out to be quite a good test of the CMS system that I have put behind it as well, as the reskinning took just over 45minutes from start to finish including doing up the graphics.
I’m [...]
