Category: Technology

Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal Plugin and Theme development

Many developer who are experienced in development. But with another CMS development. we look for Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal Plugin and Theme development.  But still that comes to another cms or project development. We are always search for good IDE which are free and open source that is the first requirement.

Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal Plugin and Theme development

Our basic need are as follows in any IDE, the IDE need to support following things:

  • CSS
  • XHTML/HTML
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • MySQL

I created a list of IDE which I used daily  to do a development. Here I need to clarify IDE is language specific. I work in PHP, Ruby on Rails, Adobe Air, Flex, Javascript, CSS.

I recommend following IDEs which I really found useful for all the developer who are working in wordpress, joomla, drupal development.

1. eclipse (Compatible  on Windows and Linux)

Best IDEs for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal Plugin and Theme development
Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal

Description: Eclipse is best IDE for all language development. Eclipse IdE is basically Java development but still that provides PHP, ROR and other language support. I like this IDE for java development but I did not recommend for PHP or Ruby on Rails.

2. NetBeans (Compatible  on Windows and Linux)

Best IDEs for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal Plugin and Theme development
Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal

Description: This IDE has also all language support. I specially like this IDE from Ruby on Rails development. I Used this IDE for Ruby on Rails development as well as some times for PHP development. Among the Ruby on Rails developer this IDE is so popular.

3. Komodo (Compatible  on Windows and Linux)

Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal
Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal

Description : This IDE is also support for all languages. This IDE is really good support for PHP. I really love this IDE for PHP development. Simple and fast and still nice features about PHP. This IDE is really popular among the PHP developers.

4. Aptana (Compatible  on Windows and Linux)

Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal
Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal

Description : This IDE is mainly made for Ruby on Rails development. This is also popular among Ruby developers. This IDE has features like eclipse. I like this IDE for Adobe Air and flex development.  This IDE has also PHP support.

5. EditPlus (Compatible  on Windows)

Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal
Best IDE for WordPress, Drupal

Description: This IDE is plain simple text editor. Shows you simple color highlight features. I specially recommend this IDE for PHP development and new PHP developer always start with this IDE so they will get filmier with PHP functions and methods because this IDE is does not provide any help. I love the use this IDE in daily use for any language development.

If you want to add any more IDEs. You can comments on this article.

Web designers are saying what to do with IE6

In 2003,  Microsoft launched the Internet Explorer6 and it had dominated the market with 97 percent share that time. Over the years its market share has declined, and Now as per new.cnet.com in Jan 2010, IE6 has only holding 5 percents of internet users.

Web designers are saying what to do with IE6

Web designers are saying what to do with IE6
Web designers are saying what to do with IE6

Still Most of all web designers are fighting all the time for IE6 issues and hacks. All web designers and Web development companies are still spend so much to to solve the issue with IE6 browsers.

There is reason behind that. In all over the world, still some big corporate companies and offices are using IE6. Many big companies and brands announced to ban IE6 in 2009 itself.

The Google and March 1 references come from that company’s recent announcement that it would drop IE6 from the list of supported browsers for its Google Docs online applications and its Google Sites hosting services starting on Monday, March 1. Yesterday, Google’s popular video site YouTube named March 13 as the end-of-support date for IE6.

There is big issue with IE6 browser but still some web developer are not aware of that. IE6 is majorly lacking to provide a web security. I can say, IE6 is kind of hackers browser.

Microsoft’s browser has weathered a “kill IE6” campaign since February 2009, when Facebook prompted IE6 users to upgrade. It accelerated last summer when Digg announced it would curtail IE6 support, and an “IE6 Must Die” Twitter petition collected thousands of names. Microsoft has endorsed the anti-IE6 efforts, going so far as to say that “Friends don’t let friends use IE6,” although it has refrained from forcing users or companies to upgrade to IE7 or IE8, arguing that the old browser is still required by some enterprises.

There are new technologies are coming like HTML5, CSS3 but still IE8 is also not providing the basics of that. So web deverloper’s need to struggle for that. The biggest issue I will say here is project estimation. Due to IE6 browser estimation will go always wrong. This is really frustrating.

There are multiple issues with IE6. I will talk about some here.

  • z-index issue – most bad part in IE6
  • inline-block – display property not work
  • min-height and max-height css property
  • child selectors in CSS
  • PNG transparent images- biggest issue
  • Poor Javascript support

Microsoft is planning to launch IE9 but still they are not included the some nice features of HTML5 and advanced javascript methods and CSS3 attributes.

What I say more.. Web designers are saying what to do with IE6…..

why wordpress was down for 110 minutes

On 19th Feb 2010 we all faced the wordpress down and that affected the 10.2 million blogs. why wordpress was down for some time on 19th 2010 due to huge amount traffic.

That is really huge amount of blogs and page views missed by wordpress. On that day itself Matt who is founder of wordpress is came up with reason. That is really great relief and news to all bloggers of wordpress.

why wordpress was down
why wordpress was down

As Per Matt:  It appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our datacenter providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke the site. It also broke all the mechanisms for failover between our locations in San Antonio and Chicago. All of your data was safe and secure, we just couldn’t serve it.

What we’re doing: We need to dig deeper and find out exactly what happened, why, and how to recover more gracefully next time and isolate problems like this so they don’t affect our other locations.

I will update this post as we find out more, and have a more concrete plan for the future.

I know this sucked for you guys as much as it did for us — the entire team was on pins and needles trying to get your blogs back as soon as possible. I hope it will be much longer than four years before we face a problem like this again.

Best twitter desktop applications

Twitter is micro blogging website which is most popular in the small time. I specially love twitter, here are sime Best twitter desktop applications. How twitter is working. In short description we can express our self.

Best twitter desktop applications

We always need to open browser and tweet. In this post I will give the list of best twitter desktop applications.

1. TweetDeck

Allows you to split your Tweet main feeds into specific topics or groups in column formats.  This application creates a local database of all your Tweets. It allows you to continue posting Tweets even when offline. These Tweets will be pushed to your Twitter account once your are back online.

2. Twitterific

Lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets”  using a clean and concise  user interface designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac’s desktop. The app shows a scrolling list of  the latest tweets from your friends, or public feeds. Its features include multiple Twitter account support, auto refreshing, inline display of replies and DMs, shows no. of unread tweets, quickly delete tweets, auto show/hide new tweets, single click access to user pages and more.

3. Twunami

A feature-rich Twitter desktop application which boasts of the following basic functionalities – configurable Tweet workspace, optional persistent reminders, on click Tweet/Retweet/SuperTweet/SuperRetweet, threaded tweets, threaded DMs, mark Tweets as read/unread, sort tweets by newest or oldest, and definitely so much features.

4. twitterfeed

twitterfeed allows you to feed your blog into Twitter. You provide the URL of a blog’s RSS feed and how often you want posts to Twitter, and twitterfeed does the rest.

5. digsby

Digsby is chat client. Using this client you can chat with yahoo, gmail, jabber, facebook, twitter.

I specially love this  chat client.

install php and memcached server on centos5

In this article I given full step by step installation guide about php and memcached . Check full article for install php and memcached server on centos5.

install php and memcached server on centos5

What is Memcached?

Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

install php and memcached server on centos5
install php and memcached server on centos5

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

Please use following commands for installtion;
[root@ip-192-168-2-125 wordpressapi]# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm

[root@ip-192-168-2-125 wordpressapi]# yum remove php-common

[root@ip-192-168-2-125 wordpressapi]# yum install php-pdo php-mcrypt squirrelmail php-pecl-apc php-xml php-gd php-devel php php-imap php-pgsql php-pear php-soap php-mbstring php-ldap php-mysql php-cli php-pecl-memcache

[root@ip-192-168-2-125 wordpressapi]# /etc/init.d/memcached restart
Shutting down Distributed memory caching (memcached): [ OK ]
Starting Distributed memory caching (memcached): [ OK ]

[root@ip-192-168-2-125 wordpressapi]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [ OK ]

[root@ip-192-168-2-125 wordpressapi]# vim /etc/php.ini
In php.ini file Please find the “extension=modulename.extension” words
Under that sentance please paste following line:
extension=memcache.so
Note: dont comments that line.

[root@ip-192-168-2-125 wordpressapi]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
[root@ip-192-168-2-125 wordpressapi]#

Google’s is creating the Buzz more secure in few more days

On Saturday, the company announced it would change Buzz again, not with regard to profiles (which will apparently continue to be made public, if only to other Buzz users, by default) but rather, followers. As Buzz product manager Todd Jackson wrote, “Starting this week, instead of an auto-follow model in which Buzz automatically sets you up to follow the people you email and chat with most, we’re moving to an auto-suggest model. You won’t be set up to follow anyone until you have reviewed the suggestions and clicked ‘Follow selected people and start using Buzz.'”
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Also over the weekend, Google essentially admitted it was not the best of ideas to assume that items already shared through Picasa and Google Reader, on a local basis, should become automatically shared through Buzz; new users were discovering they were already sharing Picasa photos without ever having given their permission. What we have also yet to see next week is whether Buzz users can still make use of a trick that a security engineer discovered last Friday, to use Picasa to ascertain one’s semi-public Google Profile URL as though it were a fully public one.

A Google spokesperson confirmed to Betanews this afternoon that a second round of privacy changes, the nature of which was revealed last Saturday evening, is still being developed, and may yet go live “in the next couple of days.”

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Adobe Has not Feared From iPad and HTML5, Says some Analyst

Adobe Has not Feared From iPad and HTML5, Says some Analyst. Adobe haw hit lowercase to vexation most from Googles ingest of HTML5 in YouTube and Apple rejection Flash for the iPhone and iPad, according to a newborn shrink inform from investigate concern Jefferies amp; Co. That report follows past blogosphere noisy over whether the demand
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“Apple’s exclusion of Flash from the iPhone/iPad and Google’s YouTube beta that uses a HTML5 video tag are recent events that have caused investors to raise concern over the future of Flash (which is today’s leading Internet rich media/video container),” Jefferies & Co. analyst Ross MacMillan wrote in a Feb. 10 research note. “We think Flash will remain a leading (but not the only) rich media platform, and, more importantly, this has almost zero bearing on numbers over the next 18 months.”

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9 Things You Wish Google Would Announce

Virtually everyone expects Google to announce something to do with social networking today, when the company holds a press conference at 1 PM ET. Maybe it’s some Twitter-like functionality inside of Gmail. But Google isn’t telling, and the result is all guesswork. What if everyone is wrong? Here are a bunch of ideas from Twitter of all the things people would like to hear Google announce today.

Wish Google Would Announce

Wish Google Would Announce
Wish Google Would Announce

1.) “We’re Buying Twitter”: Well, this is wishful thinking. Google has bought its share of companies and technologies, but I think Twitter’s valuation might be too high for Google’s blood.
2.) Preview Panes in Gmail: Nice, simple upgrade to the popular web mail app. If they do, it’ll show up quietly in Gmail Labs.
3.) Google Reveals Exactly What’s it’s Doing with the NSA: There have been reports that Google is working closely with the National Security Agency, but no one seems to know why. Don’t expect Google to talk about this.
4.) Google Voice is Going Open: You don’t need an invite; you could simply go to Google voice and sign up today. It would be nice, but it’s definitely not newsworthy.
5.) Google Lowers the Price on Unsubsidized Nexus Ones: Wouldn’t it really be HTC lowering the price? Google’s not making money on this phone, but HTC probably is. I doubt they’ll want that to change.
6.) Google Announces Rescue Plan for NASA: With the Obama Administration pretty much abandoning the program, this would be a great opportunity for the space-loving Google to step in. Again, doubtful—even Google doesn’t have that much money.
7.) A Promise Never to Allow Data Mining: Google needs to mine its data to deliver valuable insight to clients and partners. They do it in ways that do not reveal private data. Don’t expect any of that to change.
8.) Google Unveils a Shipping Chrome Netbook or Tablet: The Chrome OS is months, if not a year, away from commercial availability. This will not happen.
9.) Google Updates Android: Android 2.1 is just arriving on Droids, but there is a chance, I guess, that this could be a big Android 3.0 announcement.

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1000 free social networking vector icons

I found very useful links to find and download the social networking icons. In every website we required the social icons and vector images for using the site. I collected some we nice collection of social icons links.

1000 free social networking vector icons

There are indeed free high-quality icon sets. Through icons we can check the web designers and graphic artist’s skill.

1000 free social networking vector icons
1000 free social networking vector icons

http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2009/04/600-free-design-twitter-and-social-media-icons-a-collection-motherload/

http://sherifabdou.com/2009/03/60-free-vectors-icons-for-web-designers/

http://www.blogreign.com/2009/06/16-sets-amazing-social-networking-icons-free-download/

http://webtreats.mysitemyway.com/154-free-glassy-space-social-networking-icons/

http://sherifabdou.com/2009/03/60-free-vectors-icons-for-web-designers/

http://digg.com/design/Free_Social_Network_Icons

http://designreviver.com/freebies/6-free-new-social-icons-digg-twitter-stumble-rss-delicious-reddit/

http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/social-network-icon-pack/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/06/35-really-incredible-free-icon-sets/

I searched for facebook, twitter, feedburner, digg.

16 best firefox addons for Programmers and Developers

Mozilla Firefox is becoming more and more powerful tool in these days. Using right add-ons it will start to become a tool, You can`t live without as web-developer! Each of these plugins can make certain things easier and that`s especially important for web-developers

1. ColorZilla
ColorZilla offers You an advanced eyedropper, colorPicker, page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

2.Delicious Bookmarks
Delicious bookmarks is official Firefox addon for del.icio.us. It integrates your browser bookmarks and tags, to keep them in order and “easy to find” way.

3. Domain Details
Displays Server Type, Headers, IP Address, Location Flag, and links to Whois Reports. Shows links to check server status and cache when page fails to load.

4. DOM Inspector
DOM Inspector is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM hierarchy can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within.

Check my firefox plugins screenshot.

5. Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page…
6. Firephp
FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call.

7. IE NetRenderer
Render the current page with IE NetRenderer

8. JavaScript Debugger
A powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.

9. JavaScript Options
Provides advanced JavaScript options for Firefox.

10. MeasureIt
Little Firefox extension that enables you to draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width or height of a element.

11. ScreenGrab!
Screengrab saves entire web pages as images. This tool will allow You to take screenshots of what is currently on your screen – you can even choose the portion of the screen you want to “grab”!

12. Speed dial
Direct access to your most visited websites

13.StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon helps you to find new sites very easy.If you are a web-developer, StumbleUpon can drive a huge amount of visitors to your website.

14. View Cookies
It adds a tab to the Page Info dialog box, which shows the cookies belonging to the current page.

15. View Source Chart
HTML Source Code GUI

16. Web developer
Web Developer`s tool bar probably will become one of the best plugins You`ve ever seen. It comes with his own tool bar that gives many useful tools for analyzing, validating and optimizing web-pages. The great thing about this plugin is that it’s on a few different browsers, so if you switch between them you will be able to use the same plugin on all.