Goodbye Ibuildings, Hi Rhinofly

After being part of their highly skilled team for over 17 months I’ve decided to leave Ibuildings. I’d like to thank Ivo for believing in me and helping me out if needed.
I’ve learned a lot and it’s been a privilege to work there.
Starting the first of March I’ll be developing in ColdFusion and PHP at [...]

Developing in PHP with NetBeans 6.8

The problem:
I love Textmate as an editor period.
There are some things though that I started missing while developing:

Code completion
Inline documentation
instant error checking
debugging from my editor
must have strong syntax highlighting support (for dark themes like my favourite Sunburst)

So I started looking around for an IDE(or Editor) that would work for me and that I could adhere [...]

Installing xDebug 2.0.4 or 2.1 on OSX

In my previous post we installed the latest apache and php from source and now I’d like to install xDebug to it. As stated in the comments on the previous post, I like living on the edge, so I build it myself, instead of using packages like MAMP or XAMMP or using binaries.
With that out [...]

Installing PHP 5.2.8 on OSX Leopard 10.5.6

Because I travel a lot by train, it’s easy to have a local development environment with me. Because OSX Leopard contains Apache2 and PHP 5.2.6, I installed MySQL, ZF, PEAR, setup the vhost conf for apache and added the path to the ZF and PEAR libraries to /etc/php.ini. This seemed to work fine for a [...]