webdev

I have several servers running PHP 5 already, but as my laptop is my primary phpGroupWare development and test environment, it was running PHP 4.

I knew this day would come, I just didn't think it would be so soon. PHP4 has been dropped from ubuntu. Ubuntu has never shipped php4 in main, but until feisty it has been in available in the universe.This is no more.

The advantage of using PHP 5 on ubuntu is that it is in main, so has full security support.

I started using PHP 3 and I was pretty enthusiastic about making the jump to PHP4, but have held back on PHP 5 due to the problems with running phpGroupWare (and other scripts) under it. It looks like I no longer have any excuses,

Now that all the major distros ship PHP 5 and PHP 6 is around the corner, it is time to bury PHP 4. The world didn't end when register globals was turned off by default. Switching to PHP 5 won't kill us either, but holding back may.

Interesting web 2.0 design patterns. Might be something useful for phpGroupWare in it.

Cool looking browser based application development tool. Could be an interesting replacement for eTemplate in phpGroupWare.

An easy way of creating favicons using the linux CLI - too easy

Good comparison of browser based RTEs

A must read for any PHP developer

Computer World article on "must have" firefox extensions. I didn't find many of them that useful, except the web developers list. Of those listed on the page, I have half of them installed. FireFTP is great if you don't have gnome-vfs available, the web developer already has a ruler in it so measure it is kinda redundant.

Next time I restart firefox I will try out ColorZilla which looks very handy.

Although a niche extension Tamper Data is part of my toolkit too.

Other addons of note that I use are:

• Fox Clocks - keeping track of what time it is for various people I know
• Flash block - avoid ads
• Session Saver 2 - so I can keep my 50+ tabs when I restart firefox :)