Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

October 13, 2008 9

Tabbing Through Elements in Firefox on Mac

By morgamic in Mozilla, Technology

This weekend my laptop decided to die after the latest batch of Apple system updates. Not sure why, but on the first startup after the update, it wanted to randomly shut off (hard power-down) and could not get out of that cycle. Thanks, Apple.
So I did my first successful restore from a Time [...]

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June 12, 2008 6

Profiling PHP with Xdebug and Webgrind

By morgamic in Mozilla, Technology

Using Webgrind and Xdebug, you to tack on ?XDEBUG_PROFILE=true to any URL and view profiling information for that particular URL instantly.
One of the main criticisms of profiling PHP applications has been how difficult it is to manage different kcachegrind or wincachegrind windows — assuming you’re a pro at pointing them to your Xdebug output directory [...]

May 28, 2008 3

MySQL Workbench Rocks

By morgamic in Mozilla, Technology

In April MySQL Workbench 5.0.x reached GA status. I had a chance to try it and wow — it rocks.
It’s super-easy to use and I’ll just copy its feature list:

Cairo based diagramming canvas which allows output to different targets such as OpenGL, Win32, X11, Quartz, PostScript, PDF etc

visual representation of tables, views, [...]