A New PHP Development Environment

Posted May 8, 2008 * Comments(0)

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 managed to take the plunge and get started on this.

I’ve found that locating really basic information on this has been surprisingly difficult, so have decided to blow the dust off my old blog and put down some notes on what we’re up to.  Hopeful someone else out there might find it useful, or better still offer some tips on how we can improve it further. Read on for more details.

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Dreamweaver impending nightmare

Posted May 16, 2006 * Comments(0)

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 of Dreamweaver I can’t help wonder what will happen to the package now that Adobe (of Photoshop fame) have bought out Macromedia. Such is my concern that Adobe are going to ruin the package that I’ve decided to upgrade to the latest version now before they get a chance to screw with it too much.

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