January 16th, 2009
Integrated Development Environments in general and Eclipse/Aptana Studio specifically provide tree-based project explorers used to locate and launch files by displaying the file system that contains your project code. Typically the simple directory and file tree is marked up with:
- Icons for different file extensions
- Version information about the directories and files if connected to a version control system
- Context menus specific to each directory and file
This widely accepted approach to represent code files in a project has worked well in the past because projects and project components were typically:
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October 14th, 2008
Eran Galperin has written a great post on profiling MySQL queries with Zend_Db and optimizing them by hand.
He explains how to use Zend_Db_Profiler to analyze all SQL queries on a page and how to improve the performance of the queries by adding indexes.
Here is a quick modification to his example that will send the profiling information to firebug instead of printing it to the page.
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September 2nd, 2008
The long awaited day has arrived. Zend Framework 1.6 just shipped and with it native support for FirePHP!
This means that if you use Zend Framework (ZF) you can now log to your Firebug Console via FirePHP without needing to download any other PHP files such as the FirePHPCore library.
There are two primary components available at this time. One is the Zend_Log_Writer_Firebug and the other the Zend_Db_Profiler_Firebug.
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