cakebaker » tools http://cakebaker.42dh.com baking cakes with CakePHP Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:29:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My tool box http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2009/10/16/my-tool-box/ http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2009/10/16/my-tool-box/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:18 +0000 cakebaker http://cakebaker.42dh.com/?p=1263 In the last few days several people in the Rails world wrote about their “tools of the trade”. And as I have never written about the tools I use, I think it is a good time to do it now.

There isn’t much to say about the hardware I use: my only machine is a Dual-Core Toshiba Notebook with 4GB RAM and a trackpoint (the most important feature to me, as it allows me to keep my hands on the keyboard all the time).

And here my (probably incomplete) list of software I often use:

  • OS – Arch Linux with KDE as window manager
  • Browsers – My preferred browser is Konqueror, it is light-weight and, thanks to the good KDE integration, it is a Swiss Army knife. However, it doesn’t work properly with some websites… The other browser I use is Firefox with the Adblock Plus plugin (additionally I have Firebug installed, though it is usually deactivated).
  • Chat – To chat I use either Kopete or Skype
  • Mail – Thunderbird
  • IRC – Konversation
  • Database Tools – MySQL Query Browser
  • Coding – Eclipse with PDT has been for a long time my primary development environment. However, as it seems like it becomes worse with each release, I use more and more the Vim editor.
  • Source Control – For the few remaining Subversion repositories I use the Subversive Eclipse plugin, and for everything else I simply use Git
  • Graphics – Inkscape
  • Debugging – To see what’s going on when working with OpenID or some APIs I like the Wireshark network protocol analyzer

And last, but not least, my favorite tools: paper and pen. I use them primarily to manage my todos and most of my passwords, to draw UML diagrams, and to sketch UIs.

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]]> http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2008/02/15/vectorizing-images/feed/ 4 cakeinfo http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2007/01/16/cakeinfo/ http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2007/01/16/cakeinfo/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:45:32 +0000 cakebaker http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2007/01/16/cakeinfo/ Masashi Shinbara, a Japanese CakePHP blogger, has written a nice little script similar to phpinfo() to show you some information about your application. You can see the script in action here.

The usage is simple: download the zip, copy the content of the zip to app/webroot and call the script with http://yourproject.com/cakeinfo.php .

[via http://cakephp.seesaa.net/article/31499898.html]

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Thanks to rockswontcry for mentioning this service in the IRC channel.

]]> http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2006/12/15/browsershots/feed/ 6 (PHP)Eclipse and phpDocumentor http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2006/08/05/phpeclipse-and-phpdocumentor/ http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2006/08/05/phpeclipse-and-phpdocumentor/#comments Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:10:08 +0000 cakebaker http://www.cakebaker.42dh.com/?p=239 In a comment Carriantor has pointed me to a tutorial (which has disappeared in the meantime, please try the tutorial from José Pablo Barrantes) about integrating phpDocumentor, a tool to generate API docs, into Eclipse. Thanks Carriantor!

Another short tutorial (there is also a German version available) about this topic has been written by Simon Speich.

Update 2008-06-21: Changed the link for the tutorial as the tutorial no longer exists at the original url.
Update 2008-07-28: Adding link to Simon Speich’s tutorial.
Update 2010-04-29: Fixing/removing broken links
Update 2010-05-10: Adding link to the English version of Simon Speich’s tutorial

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EasyEclipse packages together Eclipse, the open-source software development platform, and selected open source plugins.

They provide packages for Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Python. Just download the desired package, unpack it, and start programming ;-)

]]> http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2006/06/28/easyeclipse/feed/ 1 Two extensions for the Firefox searchbar for searching in the api/wiki http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2006/03/09/two-extensions-for-the-firefox-searchbar-for-searching-in-the-apiwiki/ http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2006/03/09/two-extensions-for-the-firefox-searchbar-for-searching-in-the-apiwiki/#comments Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:20:07 +0000 cakebaker http://www.cakebaker.42dh.com/?p=136 Miguel Ros (aka ros-soft) has published two extensions for the Firefox searchbar:

The source code of the extensions can be found in his post “Search the cakephp site within firefox search bar”.

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