Category Archives: Life of a Web Developer

The new WizOneSolutions.com has launched!

By WizOne Solutions | Published: June 11, 2010
I’m happy to announce the launch of the new design for WizOneSolutions.com. After many months of anticipation, it’s here! There’s quite an interesting story behind this new design, too. Around the end of summer last year, I asked my good friend Andrew Sepic over at Think Up! Design if he could help me create a better design [...]
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Developer musings – should I put them here or on a separate site?

By WizOne Solutions | Published: December 4, 2009
Hi there – a question for you! Answer it in the comments. I have lots of stuff I could potentially share and that I run into all the time. I’ve been holding off on blogging too much here because I’m not sure if it would fit the page. I see on other developer’s sites though that they [...]
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VIM: Moving around windows made a little easier (and how to escape without Esc)

By WizOne Solutions | Published: November 17, 2009
This is a quick post with some shortcuts I just implemented in my vimrc file that I just felt compelled to share with the world. It answers the question, “Are you tired of hitting Ctrl-W to move around windows?” Then do I have the solution for you! Pop these guys into your vimrc file: nnoremap <S-C-h> <C-W>h nnoremap <S-C-j> [...]
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Code merging with VIM

By WizOne Solutions | Published: October 28, 2009
So today I had the chance to learn about vimdiff, VIM’s mode for file comparison and merging. It was a lot better than I expected! When I switched to using Ubuntu for my day-to-day local testing (because I need reliable Xdebug, and Windows Vista’s Apache-PHP module just wasn’t cutting it as far as Xdebug stability goes), [...]
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Coding on phone; Vim pays off

By WizOne Solutions | Published: October 25, 2009
Learning more Vim paid off the other day. I edited a couple files on a remote server using my T-Mobile G1 along with the ConnectBot program. The process was, of course, pretty simple. Start ConnectBot on the G1. Connect to the server. cd to the directory containing the file I wanted to edit. Type vim <name of file> Edit as [...]
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And then there was VIM – a story of Linux PHP IDE frustration

By WizOne Solutions | Published: October 15, 2009
Yesterday, I hit a crossroads in the life of a Web developer. You see, I’ve been doing my testing on an Ubuntu VM lately. It’s been great because Apache runs PHP faster than it did on my XP VM. (If you ever need a break, fire up XP and load the Drupal modules page on [...]
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