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If your Gmail is really slow, don’t forget you can always switch to basic HTML view. I suspect you will find that it works just as well and is blazingly fast compared to standard Gmail. Its still running over HTTPS so there is no security concern. The only issue is that you will need to [...]

Working on a custom Drupal module in Netbeans and wondering how to get Netbeans to treat the file as a PHP file even though the extension is .module? All you need to do is right click the file and select “Open As”. Then in the dialog box select the PHP option and that’s it. Sorted. [...]

For content or community driven websites I definitely recommend taking a close look at the PHP based open source package Drupal. Like other successful open source packages, one of it’s key strengths is in the tremendous breadth of additional modules that are available allowing you to create your custom mixture of features specific to your [...]

Using Git for version control is great, but if like my you work on a lot of different projects then everything you can do to save time setting Git up is well worth it. One of the features of Git is the ability to only track certain files and ignore other files. For me that [...]

Eagerly anticipated, pretty much a whole new version even though its numerically a tiny increase - the features being released in this update are largely features that were originally scheduled for PHP version 6. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like [...]