Wishlist
As it is nearing Christmas I started thinking about things I would like to see in the PHP world. I don’t have time to write down a long wishlist but a few things would make me a happier person.
- Faster Eclipse/PDT/Zend IDE
- Builtin, reliable, refactoring support in PDT
- A good (good === simple and extensive) tutorial on using Zend_Test for testing applications built on Zend Framework – cause I’m starting to feel stupid here.
Apart from those three PHP specific wishes I also wish for all the usual stuff; a new mobile (I’ll buy one myself soon), more spare time with my family and friends (I’ll get that soon as well), world peace (tough one unfortunately), new laptop (my currrent – almost new – Dell sucks) and more.
I will get more free time soon. I’m selling the house in southern Sweden and moving with my family to southern Spain where I will work as a contractor for major Spanish consumer sites. Fun PHP work ahead!
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1., 2., are already solved: Give Netbeans 6.5 a try!
There is nice sample application from a zf core dev.
http://github.com/weierophinney/pastebin/tree/master
I like the test environment and it works great.
Eclipse is so slow!
I’ve written two blog posts on Zend_Test, one on Setting up your Zend_Test test suites and another on basics of testing ZF MVC applications. Also, as @jens noted, another good place to look is at a practical application; my pastebin demo application is fully tested, both for models and controllers, and demonstrates many of Zend_Test’s features.
Get a Mac, dude!
(Yes, I know I’m still sticking to Lenovo T-series myself… but at least not Dell!
Besides looking pretty, a Mac falls short in all sorts of web areas. Dell’s Vista installation sucks, yet after wiping mine with XP Black its lightening fast.
I’ve struggled with Eclipse…now testing out a 90 day VisualStudio