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MacGDBp: A Remote PHP Debugger for OS X

June 17, 2008

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 and see the local variables and function call stacks all within an OS [...]

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Fixing the WordPress Theme Reset Problem

December 9, 2007

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 a bit of code in WP meant to protect the user from bad [...]

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Cake on OS X with Headdress

October 29, 2007

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 – the CSS and images were missing. After digging around the Web and trying many [...]

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Quick Note to My Future Self: PHP & Memory

July 16, 2007

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.

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Style Evolution – Dynamic CSS Part 2

May 14, 2007

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. Let’s jump right in shall we?
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Dynamic CSS A.K.A. CSS Variables

March 22, 2007

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 is its static nature. I want to be able to reuse values (CSS variables if [...]

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Ma.gnolia Plugin 1.4 Released

March 19, 2007

Thanks to Rick and Emre for the excellent suggestions which prompted these improvements to the Ma.gnolia WordPress plugin:

Added the ability to pull bookmarks from group collections as well as those of individual people. Tags can be used with either, so you can pull bookmarks from the Web Design group that have been tagged with ‘css’.
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The New Ma.gnolia Wordpress Plugin

March 4, 2007

Barry Price, the creator of the Ma.gnolia plugin for WordPress has set its development aside and has encouraged me to adopt the project. As I use the plugin heavily on this site, and I enjoy development, I decided to take him up on it.
This plugin makes it easy to output a list of your [...]

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Mmmm Code Snippets

May 8, 2006

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 and each tag can be followed via RSS. Users can comment on snippets as [...]

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PHP Progress Bar

February 1, 2005

An interesting idea was posted to eVolt’s TheList in the form of a tip: using PHP’s flushing buffer to create a progress bar for large PHP applications. Juha Suni, the author of the tip, provided the following code, noting, that “you can use the flush()-function to push more data to the browser while the script [...]

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