Blue Static has released MacGDBp, “a native Cocoa application that allows Web developers to debug their PHP applications.” The tool utilizes the Xdebug PHP extension to connect to the running PHP app so the developer can step through their code, add breakpoints…
Category Archives PHP & MySQL
Fixing the WordPress Theme Reset Problem
12/9/2007 – 10:51 am
As I posted in the WordPress forums I’ve run into an odd problem - WordPress occasionally resets my theme to the default version, which is annoying to say the least. After a lot of digging, I learned that the likely culprit is…
Cake on OS X with Headdress
10/29/2007 – 10:10 am
As I’ve been testing CakePHP I’ve run into an odd issue on my local OS X development environment. I couldn’t get the system configured to properly render the site I was building. It didn’t even show the default documentation properly -…
Quick Note to My Future Self: PHP & Memory
7/16/2007 – 11:09 pm
When WordPress or another Web app starts throwing fits and kicking out fatal errors due to memory, make sure the local php.ini (same dir as the scripts) is allocating enough RAM. 8Mb is not nearly enough.
Style Evolution - Dynamic CSS Part 2
5/14/2007 – 8:00 am
Please note that this assumes you have read Part One of the series.
Also, I have taken to calling this Evolved CSS, as the word “dynamic” is a bit too close to the old days of DHTML (Dynamic HTML) for my liking.…
Dynamic CSS A.K.A. CSS Variables
3/22/2007 – 6:00 pm
Cascading Style Sheets are an amazing tool, having transformed Web Design as an industry and the Web as a communications medium. But in all of its glory (and it is glorious), CSS has some flaws. The most frustrating for me…
activeCollab
7/10/2006 – 1:23 pm
activeCollab is a “web based, open source collaboration and project management tool” that aims to clone the functionality of BaseCamp, but allows the developer to run it on their own servers. I’ve wanted a package like this for quite a while,…
Mmmm Code Snippets
5/8/2006 – 9:00 am
Code Snippets is an online resource, providing a central user-writable repository for chunks of reusable code. A stroll through the language-agnostic site provides a plethora of tasty bits and bytes from many programming languages and frameworks. Each snippet can be tagged…