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Improve Eclipse Editor (HTML/CSS)

I’ve been having problems with editing html and css files in Eclipse for quite some time now, even when I’m using the latest version of Eclipse, Galileo, and the latest version of PDT. Typing constantly lags, and just typing a short string sometimes takes around 12 seconds to appear. My machine is no wuss either, [...]

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Upgrading to Symfony 1.4 from PEAR based 1.2

I’ve been working on a project, which started on 1.2.7, for almost 6 months now and have been upgrading it religiously along the 1.2.x branch which stopped at 1.2.10. We’re currently entering the testing stage, and being as curious as I am opted to create a 1.4 branch from the current trunk and started the [...]

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Eclipse and Snow Leopard

Just upgraded my Macbook Pro (3,1) to Snow Leopard and the increase in speed and responsiveness of the system is immediately apparent. While everything seems to be working fine, two of my work-related softwares are broken. One is Macports, the fix is quite easy, just an upgrade to the new Macports version and its good [...]

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Symfony Forms Tutorial: Quick Registration Form

I was initially skeptical about these numerous form frameworks that are coming out, I would initially opt to create forms and validations the old fashion way, but after giving symfony forms a shot; I can honestly say i’m converted! Lets start the tutorial by creating a basic registration form with a captcha. I would assume [...]

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Apache 2: Self-Signed Certificates

Self-signed certificates are very useful when doing testing on your local machine. The following was tested using a unix based environment.

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