This is the first in a series of letters to mom and dad. Many of us have or are parents who are mostly computer literate, but sometimes wish we knew more. This series will explore technology that may be unfamiliar to us.
We love NetBeans! It neatly fills our needs for developing php applications. It does seem to have some minor annoyances, but at least one of them can easily be overcome by using Ant. NetBeans with php allows you to designate a local web server for testing. The IDE automatically will copy files to the web server… well, most of the time. Sometimes, for whatever reason, NetBeans, doesn’t know if it needs to copy files.
When sharing data between computers it is often helpful to have a method for structuring your data. In our case, even sharing our development code between a laptop and a desktop computer can produce pains. Sometimes, hard coded paths are impossible to avoid. We simply structure our development code under a single folder and then [...]