Archive for January, 2010

An IDE for PHP that doesn’t suck

January 22nd, 2010 – Web Development (, , , ) 5 Comments »
phpDesigner Logo

A few months ago I commented on how PHP needs an IDE and a membership provider. Well, I’m still waiting on the membership provider, but I’m happy to say that I’ve finally found an IDE that doesn’t suck, phpDesigner. phpDesigner is a complete IDE for PHP based web development. It is a pretty simple idea but this one seems to have actually pulled it off. If you’re looking for a Windows PHP IDE, this one is certainly worth a look.

This development environment isn’t perfect, that is to say it’s not Visual Studio smooth, but it is far better than anything else that I’ve tried for PHP. It has all of the basic features that I’ve been looking for in a PHP IDE that runs on Windows.

Read more…

Graceful degradation theory, IE and CSS3

January 21st, 2010 – Web Development (, ) No Comments »
css3

As most web developers know, CSS level 3 is in the works, and has been for quite some time now. Unfortunately it is still just a working draft and cannot be adopted in full by the standards compliant web browsers. But that doesn’t mean we can’t start benefiting from the technology today.

CSS3 offers a wide array of very important and useful features. All of which will give web developers increased productivity, better maintainability and better design practices. There are so many new features that you will have to do some serious reading to get caught up.

But I can tell you about the ones that I’ve fallen in love with and offer up some theory and advice on using them in the wild world of the web.

Read more…

Page 2 of 212