Tried to develop gadgets for vista on a new msi notebook with vista preinstalled using the new ie8.
I can tell you: its so crappy, ther are no real words for that.

1. Vista nees approx 10000 pixels wide display
2. ie8 can not really show the simplest webpages
3. the number of malware installs that tried to start themselfs are uncounted
4. security warnings all minute
6. The laptops touchpad sucks sucks sucks
7. The laptops usb ports are in the dumbest places
etc pp

How not to have fun with development.


+ its not possible to blog here with ie .8.

it sucks

Hmm, the GSOC Application of Simpletest didnt make it through

But the PHP Project ofiicially supports the PHPUnit as part of its application.

I dio not like the way how php mixes its related open source projects.
Why do people who already have all support, written books, have spoken on all important conferences mixup things here? Is there any need for?

I dont think so: In the end it is bad for the whole php community and from my point of view a kind of a political move.

The PHP-test Information Minister Says: There is only one unittesting framework supporting testing in PHP:



Anyway, my will to participate on the php-test-sessions get lesser and lesser every day.

Since we had the "apc delivering wrong page error". As for now, according to apc maintainer g0paz we have a fix candidate.
Looks like the team php5, apache2, apc aint perfect. Some qutes from a chat log. I hope g0paz doesnt mind .

remove the sapi_stat() call and see if it works out fine
that means. If you use apache2 and a sapi handler for php5 just
comment line #759 in apc_cache.c
Hell yeah.

One remark: The problem seems to be i conjunction with applications that work via index.php, mod_rewritten or not.

Eclox is a simple doxygen frontend plug-in for eclipse. It aims to provide a slim and sleek integration of the code documentation process into eclipse.

from http://home.gna.org/eclox/

yehaaa ;)

silly, but the zend rest server does not serialize nested arrays ... so i came up with a little fix (for the .7.0 incubator):

--- library/Zend/Rest/Server.php 2007-03-07 11:18:03 UTC (rev 39)
+++ library/Zend/Rest/Server.php 2007-03-07 12:23:40 UTC (rev 40)
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
}

$method = $function->getName();
-
+
if ($class) {
$xml = "<$class generator='zend' version='1.0'>";
$xml .= "<$method>";
@@ -222,7 +222,15 @@
if (ctype_digit((string) $key)) {
$key = 'key_' . $key;
}
- $xml .= "<$key>$value</$key>";
+ if (is_array($value))
+ {
+ $xml .= "<$key>" . $this->_to_xml($value). "</$key>";
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ $xml .= "<$key>$value</$key>";
+ }
+
}

if (!$has_status) {
@@ -236,6 +244,21 @@
return $xml;
}

+
+ function _to_xml($data)
+ {
+ $xml = '';
+ foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
+ if (is_array($value))
+ {
+ $xml .= _to_xml($value);
+ continue;
+ }
+ $xml .= '<' . $key . '>' . $value . '</' . $key . '>';
+ }
+ return $xml;
+ }
+
/**
* Handle a single value
*

Rant: I killed the experimental usage if PHPUnit and will rewrite ALL my tests to Simpletest (again).
Why?
I seem way to stupid to follow the guides for test grouping and was not able to get it running. I am very sorry, after some multiple thousand tests in PHP, Python and some in Java it must be possible to use the test runner and all its aspects w.o. getting a degree in informatics. One point may be using a framework with proper error messages:

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite::addTest() must implement interface PHPUnit_Framework_Test, string given, called in /home/mruser/public_html/xe2zend/tests/Tpdb/AllTests.php on line 26 and defined in /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Framework/TestSuite.php on line 234

The test runs out of the box but does not when grouped, the manual has nothing to tell me neither has google ;)

Since Simpletest actually dies w.o. any error message when checking for Exceptions actually, there seems nothing left than cheating a bit with simpletest and use Marcus Bakers trick to test on Exceptions ;) (Thats why i wanted to change to PHPUnit)

function test...() {
    try {
        // throw here.
    } catch (Exception $e) {
    }
    $this->fail('This should have thrown');
}

OMFG ... thank good its friday (and i have to go to work 2morrow) G*

I have a new job and now I am working at   chip.de  where I am responsible for the development of a subproject for the website.
We are a team of 5 developers and have a backoffice/sales team that outnumbers us by the factor 2. So far so good. From the technical point of view it's a interesting thing here:

• the it website with the most pi's in germany
  
• a large webfarm where our application runs in
  
• a IT department that is 50% of teh company ;)
  
• a lot of php coding people

One of my first jobs is a prototype project that should help us deciding how and if we should develop a special sub site for the whole company. So far, this time it is up to me to decide the toolbox we are using. So far, there is a lot to choose, its a high load website application that must be able to deliver a lot of pi's a day.

• PHP5
  
• Mysql 4.x with PDO
• Smarty: because were already using it
• Zend Framework, because i do not like having glued together components like PEAR
  
• Simpletest, because i still likeit more than PHP-Unit (All Objects were doing for our selfes need to be unit-tested)
  
• Moo.fx (Javascritp Framework) for Ajax/Client Interactivity

Since it will be a effort to establish PHP5, UnitTesting, modern AJAX Principles, its surely interesting for all the readers  of that blog. Illkeep you people Updated.

SCHWING .........

This extension pops up an alert dialog to warn chrome and extension developers about one particular type of leak. It warns when chrome windows close but leave other code pointing at their JavaScript objects.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2490/


I dont have much time to write .. but it works ;) it even finds memleaks in mozilla ;) So far a cool tool at all .. something we needed before but it didt exist .. now it does.

As i developed javascript and Ajax Applications in the last year i have use several really good tools that helped me with a fast and clean development of code. Some of them ill name here and now.

Firefox Browser
The Firefox Browser is the best browser for developers and is needed for most of the tools and plugins described here. Its standard compilant, so if youre developing for xbrowser compatible Apps, you better start with firefox comapt and the move towards InternetExplorer
get Firefox here

Fire Bug
Shipped as a Plugin for Firefox, firebug helps you look into your application, some features:

• Status bar icon shows you when there is an error in a web page
• A console that shows errors from JavaScript and CSS
• Log messages from JavaScript in your web page to the console (bye bye "alert debugging")
• An JavaScript command line (no more "javascript:" in the URL bar)
• Spy on XMLHttpRequest traffic
• Inspect HTML source, computed style, events, layout and the DOM

A Must have if you code javascript and like to know what you Application is doing NOW ;)
get Firebug Here

Web Developer Toolbar
Shares some Features with firebug, but most of them are unique. This toolbar has the following Features

• cookies, ( view, edit, delete)
  
• css (disable, inplace edit, borders around boxes)
  
• forms (copletition, show form vars, convert to get / post)
• images (disable, infos etc)
  
• informations on all elements on the page
  
• outline elements
• zoom in and out
  
  

I guess i saved miriads of time since i use that one
get the Tolbar here

Selenium IDE Webtester
Tired of doing all the same click and test workflow all the day ? Wanna concentrate on coding ? Usethe Seleium IDE to record ypour clicks on the Application and replay whenever you need them ...

Links
OpenQA
Selenium IDE
Driven selenium reference
Story about Selenium

JSeclipse by Interakt
No need to say more than the homepage stats, its simply the best js editor i have stumeled upon:

JSEclipse is the the best and most popular Javascript plugin for the Eclipse environment. Its benefits are visible from the simplest tasks like editing small sections of code for your site to the more complex ones like working with the next big AJAX library or developing plugins for a product that embeds JavaScript like Dreamweaver or Photoshop.

get JSEclipse


So have fun and get to the sun instead of using the wrong tools and waste time ;)

eval evaluates a string as js code, you should never reach a state where you need such a lame solution, that is improper programming. eval is
also very slow, because it requires recompilation of the code at runtime. don't use eval.

p.s. there is a point where you might need eval. But all in all hes corect ;)