My development environment
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Some of my comrades at work look at me in awe (alright, more like with a “WTF? are you insane” stare) when I tell them that my preferred php ide is Notepad++ (plus one of the proggy fonts). I do use gVim too, when I’m on debian (with fluxbox!).
I wonder, is that really unusual? xD
If I couple my tabbed Notepad++ interface with 2 or 3 explorer windows, I have all I need for web development. I don’t think I have to mention Firefox, and all the incredible extensions available. I really don’t. This post mentions some of the essential Firefox add-ons, and some that I didn’t know at the time I read it.
I know that Zend Studio, APtana, PHP Designer, or PHP Eclipse (this has a specific name I don’t remember), are one of the tools I should be using according to the majority of my fellow programmers. However, all I want is syntax coloring, and perhaps a debugger. So yeah, I’m looking for a minimalist editor that provides debugging facilities for PHP. xD
IE7 Error: Expected identifier, string or number
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Halo 3: the Xbox 360 version of Halo 2
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Having recently played through all the campaign mode of Halo 3 in cooperative mode with Rodrigo (he has no blog Alarm!), I can say the game was very entertaining, and the co-op mode just roxors (specially, when you play on a big LCD screen ^_^ — we played in the same room).
Forms in CodeIgniter Views
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
When you hand code your (x)HTML and, in addition, your CSS, Javascript, and PHP code; things start to look boring. Very Boring! Repetition is FTL. So we, coders, are always on the look for items, techniques, paradigms, frameworks, etc. that reduce the water in our systems. In other words, make us DRY.
From the perspective of an XHTML hand-coder and CodeIgniter user, a form generator *could* be useful in the sense of doing more in less time. This is a simple passive code generator. It takes into account what you would usually put in an “Add”, or “Edit” form. The point here is to write a bit of information, and then, modify the result.
The amazing internet trails
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The most interesting things I’ve found on the internet are the result of not looking for them.
Perhaps, it’s the unexpected reward of information or visual stimulus that makes me remember the experience as that, since there was no intent. I could be predisposed to this kind of events though, due to the fact that I browse the internet like a tourist. I’m always on vacation.
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