http://www.phpdevhead.com Web Development Ramblings and Ideas.. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:40:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For some strange reason I had been getting delays when connecting to Dreamhost via SSH.  Basically after typing in my password I'd be looking at 30-45 seconds waiting, then after typing a first command..,.  say ls -al, I'd have to wait 30-500 seconds for anything to appear.  After running a ... http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/10/slow-ssh-to-dreamhost-on-os-x/ I've bee through a number of different editors for coding PHP, including PHPStudio, Dreamweaver, Eclipse, Zend Studio for Eclipse.  The quality of those editors ranged from great (eclipse) to terrible (Zend studio for eclipse, crashing buggy nightmare). I had some kind of negative issue on each of those platforms, generally ... http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/10/using-vim-to-edit-php/ Google is fostering innovation again, not by simply ecouraging their workers to spend a day per week thinking of new projects in a wide variety of niches, but also encouraging the public to innovate.  Project 10 to the 100th is a competition aimed at taking some great ideas from people ... http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/09/google-seeking-more-innovation/ Rumours abound that Google might be buying game maker and distributor Valve in the next few days.  Various media sources have indicated that it is a pretty substantial rumour and should go ahead shortly. Why would an Internet giant like Google buy a gaming company you ask?  Well it has something ... http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/09/google-buying-valve/ Ok this advertising campaign is getting weirder still.  Again I got a few chuckles over the absurdity of the situation Gates/Seinfeld are in, however I'm not sure it will do anything for Microsoft's products or image.  MS need to release a new feature rich and fast operating system with medium ... http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/09/jerry-seinfeld-and-bill-gates-ad-part-2/ Doubt is a film starring Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.  The trailer looks incredible, great to see these 2 high quality actors together! http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/09/doubt-trailer-looks-awesome/ I've added more widgets to the blog... Feedjit Map widget, which shows the general area where visitors are from, and a blog catalog recent visitors widget (similar to the yahoo mybloglog one I added a while back).  Hopefully I won't add too many more or the page will become a behemoth! http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/09/widget-crazy/ Looks like McCain has been up to a few dirty tricks in his advertisments.  Maybe he has Karl Rove on board his advertising campaign? http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/09/us-elections/ I got a couple of chuckles out of it, but stamping a celebrity on your product doesn't make your product (Vista) suddenly catch up to OS X or the good Linux distros.   Anyway here it is... http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/09/jerry-seinfeld-microsoft-ad-released/ This is a fantastic Web Accessibility toolbar for Internet Explorer, which I stumbled upon recently.  It combines a lot of functions which people normally use the web developer toolbar (Firefox) for, as well as some specialised accessibility features. Some of what it does: Validation shortcuts (W3C HTML Validator, W3C CSS Validator, W3C ... http://www.phpdevhead.com/2008/09/web-accessibility-toolbar/