While I’ve been working on my remote file explorer I noticed that the dijit tree remembers the state of opened/closed nodes but not of selections. So I filed a bug and created a patch, which got checked in yesterday.
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How to read a Mac-formatted disk from Windows
More of a note to myself: Just download and install the free tool HFSExplorer from Catacombae. Then select “Load file system from file”. Please remember you need to be logged in as an administrator on Windows 7 or have elevated privileges to be able to read external USB drives.
Installing Xdebug on Windows and PhpStorm
There is a catch when installing Xdebug on windows: You need to set the full path of the extension directive in the php.ini, since the default directory is only used for non-zend extensions. Also don’t forget to use quotes. ;used only for ‘normal’ extensions extension_dir = “C:Program Files (x86)PHPext” ;still necessary to use full path …
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Why I love PhpStorm: SQL table aliases
Here’s another example for the reason why I like JetBrains PhpStorm so much: SQL code assist in the Database Console completes statements either in upper case or lower case depending on how you started typing, not to speak of understanding aliased tables when suggesting column names after typing a dot. More PhpStorm love: SQL GROUP …
HTML5 tutorial: How to pause/resume a file upload
I wrote a HTML5 tutorial about ‘How to pause/resume a file upload‘ which just got published on hacks.mozilla.org. I’m very happy and excited about having contributed something to mozilla aside from a few bug reports. I started working as a web developer in 1998 at the peak of the first browser war when it could …
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Dojo Demo: Multiple file uploading with pause/resume
Update 09.2013: You can also use the file picker (file input) now. I implemented a demo of a file uploader with dojo and PHP that lets you upload multiple files at once with drag and drop. The upload of each file can be paused/resumed thanks to the slice method of the new Blob interface. Download: …
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Creating a ‘blocking’ confirm dialog with dojo
Update 30.03.2018: Version 1.10 of dojotoolkit includes a dijit/DialogConfirm now, which is simply a dijit/Dialog featuring ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons, no blocking though. Update 15.10.2012: Code is available on githup now. I also fixed updating the content of the dialog after creation (e.g. dialog.set(‘content’, newContent) overwrote the confirm/cancel buttons because they were part of the …
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phpStorm and documenting JavaScript
I’m awed again and again by phpStorm‘s features. I just came across this one: When I comment my JavaScript methods/functions with the @param, all IDEs I have tried out so far, let you only set a primitive type in curly braces, e.g.: /** * Some method description. * @param {Object} deferred dojo.Deferred */ someMethod: function(deferrede) …
How to create JavaScript documentation in PhpStorm
Update 19.07.2013: This guide is outdated. Read How to Generate JavaScript Documentation with JSDoc 3 and PhpStorm PhpStorm’s code assist feature nicely displays our own JavaScript code documentation. But what if you wanted to create a separate documentation you can hand out or integrate into your website? Then you should use jsdoc-toolkit. You can configure …
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How to create PHP documentation in PhpStorm
PhpStorm displays your own code documentation in the code assist. But what if you wanted to create a separate documentation you can hand out or integrate into your website? Then you should use phpDocumentor. You can configure and run phpDocumentor directly from PhpStorm as an external tool. Here is what you have to do: