Today was the first day of Devoxx, the European Java conference held in Antwerp. The first two days are actually the ‘University’ sessions. These are longer, more in depth talks and the first one I went to was the ‘Productive Programmer’ by Neal Ford from Thoughtworks. This was an interesting talk split into two sections, the first dealing with the mechanics of productivity and the second consisting of a number of tips putting these principals […]
Miguel found this screenshot in an old email from when we were working on permissions and preferences in OpenX: The subject of the email was “Permissions & Settings: Learn From The Masters”
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I just upgraded to WordPress 2.7. I’ve done a few WordPress upgrades now so it usually goes pretty smoothly but I know from experience how difficult some people find upgrading web apps which is why I thought this comment on the WordPress blog was interesting: … this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. We heard how tired you were of doing upgrades for yourself and your friends, so […]
It seems I’m not the only one who thinks the new PHP support in NetBeans is pretty cool. Roumen’s blog points to a post on the zend forums: My company bought 3 3-year licenses for Zend Studio earlier this and up until a few weeks ago, there was nothing else on the market that even came close to meeting our requirements. Then Netbeans released 6.5 with PHP support. Right out of the gate, their PHP […]
I first blogged about the PHP support in NetBeans at JavaOne this year. At that stage it was only available as an Early Access release and was a little too buggy for serious use so I always found myself having to switch back to Zend Studio. Since then the development builds have been getting better and better and now there is a NetBeans 6.5 Release Candidate available. The improvement in the last few months has […]