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Henry Hayes has written up a handy post to his blog looking at using FirePHP and Zend_Log_Writer_Firebug to log messages directly to your Firefox's Firebug console.

Webshell is a console-based, JavaScripty web client utility that is great for consuming, debugging and interacting with APIs.

I use Firefox as my primary browser.

The main reason I've been faithful to Mozilla is my set of add-ons. I use Firebug regularly, and I'm not sure what I'd do without JSONovich.

Christoph Dorn, author of the FirePHP tool for interfacing your PHP applications directly with Firebug, has written up a guide to help you get started using the latest version in five easy steps.

Get started with FirePHP 1.0 in 5 steps.

Why upgrade? Check out the new features.

The steps are simple (it's a pretty easy tool to use):

Pablo Viquez has a new post to his blog today looking at how to profile the MySQL connections and queries in your Zend Framework application with some built-in tools.

Article originally from AK BK Consulting blog
One of the key reasons to create the app.Builder, was so I could speed up the development of Web applications using the Roo library.

The web based version saved considerable time, and led to quite an improvement in delivery times for projects. 

In a new tutorial posted to the PHPRiot.com site today Quentin Zervaas shows you some of the steps he's taken to improve the response time and overall speed of his site to help with the ever-increasing load.

My firefox was getting a bit sluggish, which sucks.. because it's still my favourite browser. Today was just a disaster.

The entire browser would just hang for seconds at a time, slow startup times.. etc.