Web Development

Apr 13, 2008

Debugging PHP Applications with Xdebug and Eclipse PDT

Debugging PHP Applications with Xdebug and Eclipse PDT Posted by in Eclipse, Programming, Technology, Web Development 28 comments

OK, so I have x64 Eclipse successfully installed and running with all the plugins I use for Web Application Development. But what about debugging? Sure, var_dump(), echo, print and so on are all valuable to me when debugging a script, but it’s always good to have more information. Xdebug is a fantastic PHP extension, which [...]


Mar 27, 2008

Eclipse PDT and MySQL – SQL Explorer Plugin

Posted by in Eclipse, Programming, Technology, Web Development 24 comments

I’ve been using Eclipse PDT for some time now, and since PHP programming invariably involves connecting to a database at some point or another, I wanted to be able to access my MySQL databases from within the Eclipse IDE – even if only to quickly debug SQL statements. I generally use a combination of a [...]


Mar 5, 2008

IEs4Linux – Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6 & 7 on Ubuntu Linux

Posted by in Programming, Technology, Ubuntu, Web Development 11 comments

I do a lot of Web Development, and try to build W3C Standards Compliant web sites – that’s why I always develop a website for Firefox first, and it’s also why I despise – with absolute passion – Micro$hite Internet Explorer (including version 7, which although is closer to following W3C’s standards than any previous [...]