Posted by Jeffrey on October 18, 2006 – 11:42 am
I’ve tried several times to install Zend Studio on my MacBook Pro and each time it has failed horribly, usually killing my computer. The issue was brought up at a recent PHP conference I attended and no one seemed to have an answer. Working from home today, I took a few minutes to figure it out and get it working.
Lee, a work associate, pointed out that it may just be the installer that doesn’t work and from reading several blog posts and such, that seems to be the case. The easy workaround is to make sure you’re running the latest release of Java or your intel Mac, and copy an existing install onto it. I have a G5 Tower at work and copying my Zend directory over to my MacBook worked perfectly. It seems the only problem is that the debugging doesn’t work, but that could easily be resolved by installing Zend Platform (free for developers) on the local machine (if it works) and running debugging through the local server rather than the internal binaries. For now I have to get back to work so I’ll play more another day and post regarding my success.
Posted by Jeffrey on October 17, 2006 – 12:02 pm
I don’t like asking for help on mailing lists. I have nothing against lists in general, I subscribe to several that fill up my inbox hourly, and I try to respond as often as I can, but what annoys me the most is when people ask a simple question and they’re bombarded by “RTFM”, or Read the F*#!ing Manual for those who are unfamiliar with the acronym. What’s the point in that?
I can’t imagine what I would do if my daughter was in kindergarten and asked the teacher “How do you spell xylophone?” and the teach responded “Well dear, why don’t you go look it up in the F*#!ing Dictionary?”. You’d have parents demanding the resignation of the teacher for improper conduct. And there shouldn’t be a difference on mailing lists.
As a professional, you, I and we need to understand that new users will ask common and often obvious questions, and even the best of us sometimes have a bad day and forget the obvious. Neither case should be treated with confrontation or belittlement. People are trying to learn here, so if you feel the need to respond, offer a constructive suggestion rather than trying to make yourself feel bigger by making others feel like idiots. Half the time it just invokes a flamewar anyways and just wastes everyone’s time.
Posted by Jeffrey on October 16, 2006 – 10:22 pm
We’ll last week they finally got my new keyboard in at the Apple store and it took a few days to fix so I’m just getting back on-line with my MacBook. I was annoyed by the fact my ‘P’ key was busted, but it was fixed without question or cost and I was impressed by the professionalism and quality. My MacBook came back cleaner than went it went in - not a fingerprint to be seen anywhere - and although it took me forty-five minutes to find a parking spot at Yorkdale mall, and the Apple store was shoulder to shoulder when I got there, the staff quickly retrieved my repair without an appointment and i was in and out in under ten minutes! (Although I could have spent some more time there looking at iPods and such but I didn’t want to be tempted so I quickly left)
Now that I have my computer back, I’ll be putting it to good use in the coming months. I’m doing a technical review of an upcoming PHP book and have another book I’ll either be authoring or co-authoring as I’m just working out the final details. Along with abiding by my new daughter’s schedule, it’s going to be a few busy months.