Posts from: July 2011

18 Jul 2011

Helping Netbeans/PhpStorm with Autocomplete/Code-hinting

Where Netbeans can’t guess the type/existence of a local variable, you can tell it in a multiline comment: /* @var $varName TypeName */ After this comment (and as long as TypeName is defined in your project/project’s include path), when you start to type $varName, Netbeans will offer to autocomplete it, and will offer TypeName method/property suggestions.

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17 Jul 2011

A Case Against Google+

Google+ will fit some people really well, and is certainly bringing some fresh ideas to the table to keep Facebook on its toes. That said, here’s why I kinda hope it doesn’t take off, and why I’m seriously considering leaving the party early. There were compelling reasons to abandon Friendster and MySpace at their peaks;

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3 Jul 2011

Firefox 5 Shibboleth Issues

If you manage a Shibboleth SP and have been receiving complaints from Firefox 5 users, you may be running into an issue due to FF5′s more compliant caching of Location headers in 302 redirects. While this is a step in the right direction for front-end performance, even tiny HTTP handling changes can affect existing sites.

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