I've been running Eclipse PDT for my PHP work for a while now, and during my down time discovered how to get it working with XDebug.

Since starting at the new job though, we've had a little bit of a budget to spend on things like training and professional tools, so I got a copy of Zend Studio for Eclipse.  It's just like PDT but with a few extra helpers and templates, and it's supported - which is always nicer than having to Google for answers all the time.

Only problem is, they appear to have disabled support for XDebug (in version 6.01 at least).  I'm not sure why - maybe it was to keep their support costs down, or maybe it was to encourage users to buy their full platform and toolkit.  Whatever the reason, I missed XDebug, so had to bring it back.

So I hunted around and found a solution for it.  Fortunately, some of the users on Zend's Devzone had come up with a solution, which I Mac-ified.  I've added it to the tip page for your viewing pleasure.

After stalling for months, I got online yesterday at 2.30pm to find a couple of mounting brackets for my old GPS, after I broke the old bracket in February.  After a quick bit of Googling, I stumbled upon Calculator King, in Melbourne, and ordered the parts.  

Cut to lunch time today, and the postman brings me my kit.  That's a 21 hour total delivery time!  Outstanding work guys - I thoroughly recommend them next time you're looking for a phone/PDA/GPS or accessories.

Since I've changed blog addresses, I need to get this blog re-established with Technorati.  Here's the link to my Technorati Profile.

So, I'm finally getting my act together and building a real website for myself that contains a little bit more than just a blog.  I've done a lot of work with Joomla lately, so it seemed a pretty simple choice to use it to build my site.

At first I thought about keeping WP around for blogging, and Joomla for everything else, but getting the same template working under both systems was too much like hard work, so the next choice was to add a blog to Joomla. 

Mojoblog sounded like the best option, as it basically gives you Wordpress inside Joomla.  Only problem is, she don't work with Joomla 1.5, which is what I'm using - having met with the honchos from the Joomla team last week. Apparently, its author is working on a 1.5 version, but there's nothing out there at the moment.  Hence I've had to look around for an alternative, and I found it in Jooblog.  It's got pretty basic functionality at the moment, but it looks like the author's fairly actively developing it.  So, I've decided to gamble on it becoming feature-complete enough to use going forward.  In the meantime, the old blog will sit at my old site until I can find a convenient way of back-importing the articles into this system.

Lots of news this week, professionally and travel-wise, but as I sit here watching Die Hard 4 with a big glass of Shiraz Malbec, frankly I'm too tired and emotional to write about it at the moment.  Stay tuned!