EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by the originators of AppJet. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration. By sharing the URL of the document that you created, others who visit that page will be able to see, in real-time, whatever you’re typing. This is awesome for collaborating on that script, or piece of code that you want your super-duper developer friend to help you on. Currently they have syntax highlighting for JavaScript, but I am assuming that they will begin supporting more languages in the near future. Head on over there and check them out!
Do you need to quickly add a specific user with access to only a certain table? Issue this command as a root or admin user:
GRANT ALL ON testdb.* TO 'testuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass1';
You can also limit user’s privileges to specific ip addresses or domains in case you need to access your databases from a different host.
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'testuser'@'remote.farmsoftstudios.com' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass1';
I wrote a little application that allows you to play music from Pandora right from your dock. It does not take up a tab in your web browser, and it supports playing while minimized, which Safari does not. You can get it here: http://www.farmsoftstudios.com/pandora/
If you like the alternating table backgrounds that are in applications like iTunes, and want them in your web application, there is a simple way to do so in PHP:
<table>
<tr class="title">
<td></td>
</tr>
<?php
$i=0;
foreach($row as $r){
if($i&0){$alt=' class="even"';}else{$alt='';}
echo "<tr".$alt.">";
//other table stuff in here
$i++;
echo "</tr>";
}
?>
</table>
These days, I consider the failure to use version control a professional malpractice. I’m also a zealot when it comes to deleting dead code. In fact, I derive quite a bit of enjoyment out of deleting existing code. Unused code, old code, mockups, things that were started and never finished, things that someone thought they needed and never did—I’m delighted to delete them all.
Quoting from the latest PHP|Architect (August 2008) article, I found Jeff Moore’s writing insightful as well as helpful. A strong contender for clean code, he suggests deleting stranded, dead, or depreciated codeblocks. As far as his suggestion for version control, I would completely agree. I maintained/wrote an entire project without version control (along with two other developers), and I sincerely hope that I never have to do that again. It was a total disaster. FTP overwrites, deleted code that had dependancies, and no way to roll back equalled extreme project management headaches.
My Advice: Use Version Control. Period.