Davey Shafik

Netbeans for PHP: Continues to Impress

It seems that I don’t blog much unless IDE’s are concerned; there is a good reason for this: IDEs are an integral part of my development process and when they suck, development sucks.

The story so far:

Boy meets ZDE 2.5
ZDE grows up to 5.5
ZDE gets replaced by new eclipse-based ZSfE/PDT
ZDE keeps going, until one day, Boy upgrades OSX
Boy hacks OSX, but ZDE is running on a donut
OSX update kills ZDE for good
Boy

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A Year in Review

This last year has been quite eventful for me; but the decisions I made are what made is so great.

First, I decided to get more serious about my photography, and by mid-year, I had my first DSLR, a Nikon D40.

Secondly, I decided to get more serious about getting back into consulting. This is the decision that is the focus of 2010 for me.

So, looking back at the year, and what I got up to:

In January, I… More

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@dshafik [1 hour ago]

@dshafik cool! Thanks for the tip
@harrieverveer [3 hours ago]

Just found the #netbeans Cmd+P (Ctrl+P on PC) shortcut. It shows function params in a tooltip when between parenthesis: http://bit.ly/bPd34l
@dshafik [3 hours ago]