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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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Fixing ZDE 5.5 in Snow Leopard

If you are still using Zend Studio 5.5, and recently upgrade to Snow Leopard, you will have spotted pretty quickly there is a pretty severe display bug when selecting text.

The reason for this, is that Snow Leopard only ships with Java 1.6 and 1.3 (wtf?)

$ ls -al
total 47
drwxr-xr-x  12 root   wheel  408 Aug 30 22:08 .
drwxr-xr-x  11 root   wheel  374 Aug 29 10:27 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel    5 Aug 29 10:26

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