aka Neon, is a great tool and I’m looking forward to the final release. It’s worth it for any PHP programmer out there who is serious about their work. If you have used Zend Studio, this will be the upgrade you’ve been waiting for. All the great features and work environment of Eclipse PDT along [...]

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I’ve been trying to compile the gnupg PECL extension on a live server and have had no end of trouble. The limited documentation that accompanies the majority of PECL extensions is rather annoying. In the end what worked for me was compiling the PECL extension statically into PHP.
The gnupg extensions is quite nice and a [...]

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My Dad is actually blogging. Check his latest article: The Mundane, the Profound and the Profane.
Got Compiz started today and it actually makes my work flow easier as moving between viewports is much easier than switching between desktops. It’s also cool to show folks the effect and have them ask “can I have that on [...]

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I’ve made too many websites where variables have been hardcoded, down the road you need to change a path or info and you end up having to edit 5 or 10 files to achieve the desired result.
Recently I was faced with a decision between loading variables at runtime from a db or creating a single [...]

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