Three days delay really paid off and I managed to find and fix few more bugs, and also to add some features planned for one of the next releases. Right now, more then 90% of all reported bugs are now fixed. There are two bugs that only occured in Firefox 3.0.4 preventing the vote to be sent. I am not sure why Firefox is causing this problem (and only with this version), but I will try to solve that one also, if it keeps repeating after this update.

Biggest bug was with the comments rating andblogs allowing anonymous comments, plugin treated all visitors like the comment authors, preventing them from voting. Rating text positioning and hiding is now fixed. Default widget template is updated, and widget and shortcode rendering in case with no votes found and trend options active. There was a small problem with PHP4 and scan_dir function that is also fixed. There ar a lot of small fixes all over the administration panels.

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For the last few months I have been following progress on the development of new NetBeans with PHP support. And, few days ago final NetBeans IDE 6.5 for PHP has been released.

From NetBeans official website you can choose download you need. You can download PHP only NetBeans (24MB) or you can choose full NetBeans (250MB) that includes editors for Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++ with Apache Tomcat and GlassFish servers. You can choose Windows, Linux, Sparc or MacOS versions.

If you are using Windows as I am, to run NetBeans you need any MS Windows XP (including x64 edition), MS Windows Vista or any MS Windows Server. You also need latest Java RunTime installed. I have tested NetBeans 6.5 with both 32bit and 64bit (with both 32bit and 64bit JRE) Windows XP, and it works without a problem.

I will describe the process of using NetBeans for developing for WordPress, and also some interesting features this IDE has to offer.

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Last few weeks I have spend a lot of time fixing GD Star Rating bugs, and even more time trying to figure out bugs in other WordPress plugins. JavaScript code is very easy to break, and in most cases it will not going to affect the page rendering, only some of the elements.

People notice GD Star Rating stops functioning and they assume that the problem is with GD Star Rating. Rating is interactive feature and when it stops working, it is the first thing blog visitors see. But in most cases some other plugin uses JavaScript and when that stops working, all JavaScript stops working.

The best thing is to check each plugin you install on you blog to see if this plugin breaks something. To see JavaScript problems you need to have Mozilla Firefox borwser (version 2 or 3) and Firebug plugin. Firebug also have it’s own plugins like Firecookie. You can install that too.
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