Having just got my brand new MacBook Pro, I’ve been setting it up as a development environment (blog post about that to come). I decided to install the new Netbeans 6.9 beta. The main reason for this is the Zend Framework (and Symfony) support.
In the past I have found Netbeans to be pretty good with code-completion when being used with Zend Framework, however with the release of Zend Tool (something I do really like), you’ve had to switch from Netbeans to the command line in order to create the project and then create a new Netbeans project from existing sources. This was a bit of a hassle.
Now, all you need to do is download the Framework, go into the Netbeans preferences > PHP > Zend tab, Zend script box should point to the zf script (from within the bin directory of the ZF downloading). On Mac and Linux it wants the zf.sh file (on Windows it will probably want the zf.bat file, although not tested). Once that has been set up, you can now create brand new Zend Framework projects from within Netbeans, and it preconfigures everything for you. Lovely!
Posted at: 11:58, 29th April 2010
Tags: Development, IDE, netbeans, php, web development, zend framework
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I’ve recently developed a script in JavaScript which will perform smooth transitions between a number of elements. This is built using the MooTools framework and is available to download from the labs.
Posted at: 10:33, 8th April 2010
Tags: Development, JavaScript, MooTools, Programming, script, web development
Posted in Development, Programming, Tech
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The time I never thought I’d see is now on the horizon. The web moving away from supporting Internet Explorer 6.
Many web developers are all too aware of the pain of getting their websites working correctly in all web browsers and THEN having to make sure they work in IE6. This is not only inconvenient and irritating, but expensive. However, with Google announcing it is no longer supporting IE6 and now Amazon following their lead, it is appearing that very soon (not immediately) people will be forced to update/change their web browser to use these large and prominent websites. Many other sites have also dropped IE6 support (list at http://idroppedie6.com/).
Finally we will be able to spend our time on functionality rather than legacy support.
Posted at: 09:17, 24th March 2010
Tags: browsers, Development, ie, web development
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