Ian Oxley

Just for fun, I thought I would have a play around with some WebKit CSS transitions and the HTML5 <audio> tag to see if I could simulate the TARDIS landing

Here’s what I came up with (currently only works in Safari): TARDIS, HTML5 and CSS3 WebKit Transitions

I was really impressed with the Xdebug Tailored Installation Instructions earlier today. Setting up a dev machine at my new job wasn’t going quite according to plan because, as nice as Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is:

1. Installing PHP via sudo apt-get install php5 installs the latest version from the repositories (version 5.3 at the time of writing)
2. We do a lot of work in Drupal, mostly version 6 which isn’t compatible with PHP 5.3 (and quite a few modules that work with Drupal 6 don’t work with Drupal 7 apparently – Drupal 7 plays a lot nicer with PHP 5.3 by all accounts).
3. So it was necessary to uninstall all the PHP 5.3 packages, add the karmic repositories to the sources.list then reinstall PHP – this time PHP 5.2

Once all this was done, it was time to install Xdebug. The tailored installation instructions seemed the best option as I’d just had to revert to a previous version of PHP. And, it couldn’t have been simpler or more straight-forward to do:

1. Go to http://xdebug.org/find-binary.php, paste in the HTML from your phpinfo() output and submit the form
2. You’ll get a nice summary and some instructions to follow
   

   Summary

   

   Instructions

After following the instructions, restart apache and reload your phpinfo() page: if your experience is anything as good as mine you should see all the xdebug configuration options set up nicely and ready to go.