Blog Archive

If my memories fail me, at least I can build new ones. (or possibly check my blog archive, to re-learn my history.)

Eclipse PDT - FAIL

Eclipse Bug # 331464 This is why it is difficult to trust open source software.  Today, I decided to open up a project that needed some attention.  Only to discover my entire web root folder for my projects had been deleted by Eclipse PDT.  So I got to be the guy who found this bug.  Please understand this happens in commercial software too.  But this type of bug is scary.  Eclipse PDT just lost a lot of points with me. Komodo and Netbeans are starting to look a...

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Eclipse PDT - Autocomplete with Codeigniter Method 1

Unending Quest for the better PHP IDE I have recently been using several PHP IDEs trying to find what I like best.  And after using them for a while... they all have features I like, but none of them has everything in a single package. I decided to try Eclipse for PHP (Eclipse PDT) again.  And one of the things I dislike is that because of the way Codeigniter is built, Eclipse has no idea how to connect what you are typing to a particular library... making it almost impossible to...

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