For years now I have been looking for some IDE to replace my previously favoured Zend Studio (regarding versions up to 5.5 inclusively) serving high satisfaction. This time I stumbled over phpDesigner 7.2.5 … I haven’t heard of it before and so gave it a try. Continue reading »
Dec 23
On (partial) evaluation of phpDesigner
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Mar 27
Hosting Webfonts Yourself
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There are plenty of reasons to adopt new opportunities of using custom font faces to design your website. And there are several ways to achieve that. Using font providers is one of those options. In opposition to that hosting webfonts yourself is another option and it includes some essential benefits. Though there is software on the net to help you with serving yourself some fonts this post is introducing a new implementation of a webfont provider using commonly available language PHP. Continue reading »
Oct 12
PHP in Windows Azure Cloud
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Windows Azure is Microsoft’s new Cloud Computing System and provides opportunity to run your ASP.NET websites combined with permanently running “worker” applications and an integrated storage system. While promoting its support for C# and Basic it’s possible to run any other language or native application in there as well … and so it’s supporting PHP, too.
Oct 07
Embedding SWF in PHPWCMS
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Looking for an out-of-box solution for embedding SWF movie in PHPWCMS I didn’t succeed. Content Part “Multimedia” is doing something strange by embedding one object tag inside of another one and it’s including parameters not required for some vanilla embedding of SWF e.g. to have a small Flash animation for on-page navigation or advertisement. The other Flash-related content part “Flashplayer” is integrating a Flash-based player for several kinds of multimedia files and thus not providing clean and simple solution here as well.
Jun 27
Zend has released beta of its new major version 7.0 of PHP IDE “Studio”. This new release continues to built on freely available Eclipse including several third-party packages freely available as well. These are combined with some packages maintained by Zend providing the benefit of using Zend Studio instead of compiling an IDE starting with Eclipse/PDT yourself. Being introduced to test this release I’m writing here about my first impressions. I beg for your pardon if you are bothered me focusing on disadvantages and bugs. It’s up to Zend to promote the benefits. So I consider things being in balance.
Mar 24
Any developer knows the worth of a good IDE increasing speed of software development. Working with PHP for several years now I started to use Zend’s Studio in 2003. Back in those days it was an outstanding product featuring opportunities missing in competitors’ software if any was available.
But today requirements have changed. Supporting available frameworks, a good JavaScript editor as well as JavaScript debugging, additional languages like Ruby have all become must-haves for an uptodate web IDE eligibly called as such. And since I would like to benefit from such revisions I started my quest for an alternative to the currently in-use Zend Studio 5.5, which is including some annoying bugs as well …
