Coding & Development

PHP + MySQL Rules Content Management System (CMS) Scence

Maybe I’m stating the obvious, but when it comes to content management systems, PHP and MySQL rules. Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, ModX, Jaws, CMS Made Simple etc are all written in PHP and runs on MySQL.
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Eclipse Switch Tabs Shortcut Key

By default, it’s CTRL+F6

Alternatively Atl+Left or Alt+Right

Or CTRL+Page-Down or CTRL+Page-Up

This is configurable in Windows > Preferences > General > Keys

Top 5 Best FTP Clients

FTP clients are necessary for working with remote files. You can’t miss it if you have your own websites or managing clients’ websites. So far I’ve tested Filezilla, Cyberduck, WinSCP, CoreFTP LE and FireFTP. Here are my experience with each of them.
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XAMPP Apache Unable To Start Solution

So I’ve just installed VMWare Workstation 8 to try out the new Windows 8 Developer Preview. That was all good.

But when I got back to write some code in my local environment (using XAMPP), I found that Apache won’t start properly anymore.
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Preparing For PHP 5.3 Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Certification

Building dynamic websites is a passion that I have for a long time. Making software/web sites run with an optimized database design, great content, usable user interface, proper marketing and getting tons and tons of web traffic has always been the dream.
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How To Enable Word Wrap In Netbeans & Eclipse

Having Word wrap in Netbeans was previously not possible but this feature has been introduced since version 6.9. This feature is disabled by default but you can turn it on easily.
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MySQL Error “Can’t specify target table for update in FROM clause” Solution

In MySQL, you can’t modify the same table which you use in the SELECT part.
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Netbeans: Using Chrome As The Default Browser

Netbeans (Programming IDE) and Google Chrome (Browser) are two of my favorite freeware applications. Getting netbeans to use Chrome as the default browser is easy and here’s how.
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How To Install & Use Zen Coding In Notepad++, Faster HTML + CSS Coding

Zen coding is a pretty cool library that allows web developers to write html and css code faster. It buys you some time so you can work on more creative things instead of figuring out if your html/css tags are properly indented/closed. If this is the first time you read about zen coding, this video will show you what it’s capable of.