I have been using Mac OS X as my primary operating system for a few years now, and only today I have found a very neat way to debug PHP code, like it is common for application code (i.e. stepping through code for debugging purposes).
The solution is a combination of Xdebug and MacGDBp.

I am using [...]

It's been a little quiet lately. This is because I am working on a cute little project that I will be able to present soon. More when the time is ready.
There has been rumor lately that Zend (developer of PHP) will release a PHP Framework. This is nothing new, there has been a IDE (Zend [...]

I've been playing with Code downloading (or Javascript on Demand) a little more.
Michael Mahemoff pointed me at his great Ajaxpatterns in which he suggests a different solution:

if (self.uploadMessages) { // Already exists
  return;
}
var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.type = 'text/javascript';
script.src = "upload.js";
head.appendChild(script);

Via DOM manipulation a new script tag is added to our document, loading the [...]

ever messed around with umlauts or other non [a-z] letters? it's quite horrible.
for the german speaking region there are mainly two encoding types: iso8859-1 and utf-8. the former encodes each letter with one byte by extending old 7-bit ascii with 127 more letters, amongst others also umlauts. utf-8 includes up to 32,640 more  letters (ascii 0×80-0xff [...]