One of the time-saving setting you can add to your eclipse preferences is to limit your file searches to your source code, and exclude 3rd-party folders. Such folders may include .git, .svn, cache or templates_c folder from smarty. There are a few different ways to accomplish this.
1. On the Eclipse File Explorer, right click on the folder that you want to exclude and choose "Properties". On the "Resource" screen, mark a folder Derived. Derived folder is excluded from search by default.
I have been involved in software development for over 20 years, and have used various version control software including SCCS, CVS, Perforce, Clearcase, Visual Sourcesafe, and SVN. Over time, SCM trend has changed from file locking mechanism to distributed version control and GIT is gaining popularity with growing users. As a software engineer, SCM is critical part of your daily chores but you don't want to spend much time maintaining it.
The reasoning for using a framework such as Zend Framework (ZF for short) is to speed up the development process, make the application extensible, and make use of the design patterns such as MVC. I think MVC is great, and it separates the models, views and controllers and makes the entire development process very clean. If MVC is great, why would you use Zend Framework without MVC?
Developing a PHP application requires domain knowledge, software engineering, discipline and time. We rarely write applications from scratch as there are freely available application frameworks that we can take advantage of. For PHP programming language, there are more than a dozen "popular" frameworks to choose from, and picking the right framework for your application is not a mundane task. I have been working as an IT consultants for many years, and Zend Framework is the one being discussed frequently.
For those who have used TortoiseSVN as a SVN client, you sure to have experienced Windows overlay icons not updating to their correct status. This makes it hard to know which files have been updated, and whether they need commit if you're working with a large number of files.
When writing a maintainable code, indentation plays important role. This may be one reason Python requires proper indentation as the programming syntax. A traditional tab indents 8 spaces, and we all know 8 spaces are just to much for coding indentation. We all opt to use 4 spaces for programming indentation, but how do you accomplish this? We can configure a TAB to indent only 4 whitespaces, or use 4 physical spaces? There are tradeoffs, and it's a matter of personal taste.
For those who have used TortoiseSVN as a SVN client, you sure to have experienced Windows overlay icons not updating to their correct status. This makes it hard to know which files have been updated, and whether they need commit if you're working with a large number of files.