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Okay, so I dropped the bomb on this host transfer. There were problems initially with me having to wait to actually test my transferred files because of subdomain settings (and me simply copying the backup files from one host and transferring them to the other, completely forgetting about permissions). However, there seemed to be problems in the blog software's update with my site's configuration settings in this blog. That's all I can figure... I was unable to find the error(s) and so I simply uploaded a new, fresh install and pointed it to the old database data. I was surprised and happy to see that it would still work and just take control of the old data. I still need to compare which mods and configuration settings I had on the old blog and are now on this one...for instance: BBCode may not be enabled in comments yet.

Someone's asked me to explain how to setup and get xDebug working on Windows step-by-step, and then how to use it. I had wanted to do that today, but...I slacked off. Hopefully I can do that sometime this week - unless anyone else would like to take a stab at it (or find a link from somewhere else?). Note: I used Apache on Windows, so hopefully they're not using IIS.

What the heck else have you been up to if this only really took you like...3 hours of fiddling at most?

Since others were having fun with it, I decided to show off a quick, poorly chosen framerate flash demonstration of Intype creating an XHTML/PHP file to do the all-famous Hello World script. Obviously, the point is not to demonstrate my coding knowledge (or mis-knowledge), but to show off the text editor's snippet control features, and how it can speed up development. In case you're curious how it interacts, for the first step I typed out the text xml and then pressed the TAB key, everything was automatically filled in for the XML header. I then typed in doctype and then TAB, but since there are multiple doctypes, it gave me a choice of which one I wanted to use, so I used the arrow keys to highlight the desired choice and pressed the ENTER key. To move through the parameter list within each snippet (fillable properties), you would also use the TAB key and enter whatever it is you want, or press the DELETE or BACKSPACE (I think) key to remove the entire property.

Please note the system clock window to know how long this actually took me -- you can clock it, heck you can even clock my hesitation since I'm not used to the tool yet.

The very first alpha public version of Intype has been released for testing. The developers are looking for feedback on this release - but do keep in mind it is the very first release. If you've ever used an editor or IDE in Windows, you will probably wonder what's so special about something like this...there seem to be no features!