development environment

Microsoft threw a spotlight on its support for the open-source Node.js server-side JavaScript development environment this week at the Node Summit in San Francisco.

FLOSS For Science: "This week we interviewed Lucian Langa, the lead developer of gnoduino, a development environment for Arduino projects under Gnome."

HowtoForge: "This tutorial describes how you can set up an development environment for building Android apps on an Ubuntu 11.04 desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap."

I almost made a critical mistake on the production mysql database for one of my projects yesterday, which definitely would not have been a Good Thing if it had happened; even though I do have a custom prompt set up for mysql – when they’re all so similar you don’t always take heed.

So now, along with having the mysql prompt defined as prompt=’\h@\u (\d) > ‘ in the [mysql] section of my ~/.my.cnf file (so host, username and database name are included in the prompt), I have also installed rlwrap and set up an alias in my .bashrc:

I have been using Vim as my primary PHP development environment for several years by now. Inspired by two blog articles (Coming Home To Vim, Vim Toolbox, 2010 Edition) I recently read I decided to cleanup my Vim configurations and create certain new macros for recurring tasks.

One of these macros is the ArgumentRewrap plugin, which instantly saves me a lot of time.

On the ServerGrove blog there's a new post showing you how to customize those default error pages that show up in a Symfony2 application when an exception is thrown.

On the PHPFreaks.com site there's a new post that's a guide for creating a basic development environment on a Debian system (complete with VirtualHosts).

On the PHPFreak.de blog there's a new post talking about the author's quest to find the "holy development environment", the one that would make a developer most productive and give them the best features to do their work.

Since I am not working with a Windows environment on a day-to-day basis, the first task for the WinPHP Challenge for me was to actually install a Windows environment and get my development environment up and running.

In a new post to his blog today Derick Rethans talks about his move to what he calls his "PHP Development Environment 2.0" - an upgrade to some of his sites and servers prompted by an update of the Xdebug website.