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Installing phpDocumentor

I wanted to create documentation for my most recent PHP project.  My code was all set and in a form that it should be in – I just needed a way to generate the docs.  I considered two options: phpDocumentor ApiGen Ended up going with phpDocumentor because it...

Compiling LESS Files

Recently, I gave up on using Eclipse in favor of NetBeans.  I had also considered Visual Studio for my Windows machine, but NetBeans was easy to setup a project that did not get in the way of the folder hierarchy and worked well with my local WAMP setup. As I started...

WordPress Query Performance

Understanding what WordPress is doing under the hood can be tough – especially when it comes to the raw SQL queries.  As is usually typical with WordPress, somebody has written a plugin for it – in this case, it is called debug-bar.  To get it going, do...

Using LESS in Eclipse

If you are trying to use LESS files in Eclipse, you will notice that those files are viewed as plain text – no indenting, no color-coding, no outlining, etc.  If you want to fix this up so that these LESS files behave like CSS files, do the following: Install...

A cool regex tool

Setting up regular expressions in code can sometimes be a pain.  Maybe you want to test that your regex is correct before decorating it to meet your language’s needs.  Well, there is a useful tool that I’ve used that does just that...