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About Adobe Director

Filed under: Uncategorized View all posts in Uncategorized”) — admin @ 12:25 am February 13, 2010

Vintage product description for Adobe Director, then MacroMedia Director.
Probable from the 1990′s.

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Digital Bio

Filed under: Uncategorized View all posts in Uncategorized”) — admin @ 1:36 pm February 12, 2010

Experimenting with posting bio info.

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Filed under: Webdev View all posts in Webdev”) — admin @ 10:52 am September 10, 2009

Notes from my search for an IDE for PHP.

I searched the web for info on PHP IDE:

“Seven great PHP IDEs compared”

“The Big PHP IDE Test: Why Use One And Which To Choose“

I need PHP IDE for MacOSX 10.5 / Intel.

You need a local server setup. I choose to use macports to install apache/php/mysql.

This was recommended buy  fixing-my-php-woes-with-macports

My brother recommended mamp mamp”), but since I had already used macports for another project I stuck with it.

Macports puts installed  in /opt/local/

I have PHP 5.2.9, mysql 5.0.77

I considered to first try zend studio zend-studio”) but after installing I let the free trail lapse. Since it cost about $400, I decided to try another komodo commercial IDE, which is about $300.

Following the article “Remote PHP Debugging on Intel-based Macs with Komodo“, I was able to get it running debug my local word press install. Success!

For the Komodo, the xdebug module it came with did not work. I had to download and compiled xdebug:

sudo wget http://xdebug.org/files/xdebug-2.0.5.tgz

sudo tar xzf xdebug-2.0.5.tgz

cd xdebug-2.0.5

phpize

./configure –enable-xdebug

make

mkdir /usr/local/xdebug

cp modules/xdebug.so /usr/local/xdebug/

I added the following lines to /opt/local/etc/php.ini

JHT-macpro:bin jht$ grep xdebug /opt/local/etc/php.ini

;extension_dir = “/opt/local/xdebug/”

zend_extension=/opt/local/xdebug/xdebug.so

xdebug.remote_enable=1

xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp

xdebug.remote_mode=req

xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1

xdebug.remote_port=9000

xdebug.idekey=komodo

Note I had to use the full path name to xdebug.so.

I next tried Netbean, a free IDE from Sun microsystems. I was able to use the same xdebug from Komodo install.

Netbean looks like the winner. Its free, well supported by a large company, and passes my initial test: debug wordpress on local install.

JHT-macpro:bin jht$ grep xdebug /opt/local/etc/php.ini

;extension_dir = “/opt/local/xdebug/”

zend_extension=/opt/local/xdebug/xdebug.so

xdebug.remote_enable=1

xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp

xdebug.remote_mode=req

xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1

xdebug.remote_port=9000

xdebug.idekey=komod

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Added images

Filed under: Wordpress View all posts in Wordpress”) — admin @ 9:09 am August 29, 2009

Added images to about page.
WordPress can easily upload images but hard to get interesting lay out on the page.

I’m struggling trying to figure out how to insert image from gallery. Solved: need show image first.

Editing on iPhone: must use HTML mode.

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Hello world!

Filed under: Wordpress View all posts in Wordpress”) — admin @ 12:09 am

I plan to transition my current personal web site to a dynamic one, using some of the popular CMS/PHP frameworks, such as:

Installed wordpress for by blog. Install top few themes and a few that caught my eye:

Trying out theme atahualpa first. It’s got tons of options. Which maybe why blog appears sluggish sometimes. I choose theme atahuala because it has categories and pages on the left wont push down the login, which is on the right.

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