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Getting XDebug setup and working with PhpStorm 2 is relatively painless but I thought I would add some hints I found when setting this up. These instructions assume you are debugging a web based application using MAMP as your server environment. Turn on Xdebug For MAMP Luckily, the version of MAMP that I have, (and presumably yours too) comes with xdebug so no need to download anything. You can confirm you have everything by making sure you have the xdebug....

I needed a full page width image scroller that supported “infinite scrolling” and could handle being positioned, where the 1st image is aligned to something on the page. Poking around I found most jQuery scrollers made use of scrollTo and would not work when the window was the container. So I coded my own as a jQueryUI widget, this widget can be used with any HTML content. Requirements To use wideScroller you need the following:...

I make my living as a front-end developer and spend the majority of my time in an IDE. So the IDE for me, is an incredibly important piece of software. I’ve played with and purchased a bunch of em’ and what follows are my personal thoughts on each. I hope this might save you some time/money when deciding which IDE to invest in. Some of these IDEs I used for years, others for only a short time....

As part of a recent project I was tasked with creating a set of custom jQuery UI widgets. When specing my widgets I discovered almost all would use some existing widget features, like sortable. I found myself trying to decide if I should extend existing widgets or somehow wrap the existing widgets with my custom code? I think this is a common question. The jQuery UI widget factory provides a method to inherit one and only one widget....

When writing user interfaces using jQuery I often need widgets to interact with each other. For example, an ajax status widget that displays a spinner when an ajax call starts, and displays a status message when the ajax call completes. This widget should be accessible by whatever other widgets are on the page. In the past I directly called methods from each widget, but this creates a lot of “glue code” and dependencies....