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I use Zend Studio for Eclipse, Version 6.0 for Windows for my coding. This is the first version from Zend in Eclipse. It is a good application but it still have some major bugs. One of the problems is if it crashes to often. Sometimes when I try to restart it after a crash it just hangs on “Loading org.eclipse.php.core”. When you get that problem it doesn’t help to restart the machine. Uninstall and reinstall sometimes works, but not always.

After a while I found out that deleting the org.eclipse.core.resources seems to solve the problem. You can usually find the catalog on
C:\Documents and Settings\\Zend\workspaces\DefaultWorkspace\.metadata\.plugins on a Windows machine. The only thing you need then, is to import your projects again. Actually quite easy solution.

I just found out by accident while I was writing this post that deleting catalog org.eclipse.core.runtime instead also works. But I would not recommend it! The program works fine and I haven’t lost my projects… but I have lost all my settings! So I need to once again set up my Zend with UTF-8 text encoding, unix line delimiter, my custom formatter and more… Much easier to just delete org.eclipse.core.resources!

Hope this advice can help others that are struggling!

The first beta version of my AJAX regular expression tool is finished!
regex lets you easily test regular expressions for PHP5 PCRE and PHP5 POSIX, using AJAX. It is available on regex.larsolavtorvik.com.

This application uses symfony framework 1.1beta2. Symfony is an excellent PHP5 that I would highly recommend to everyone working with PHP5.

Feel free to post comment, bugs, critique or whatever here in this blog. All feedback is appreciated since it will help me make regex a better tool… and I know there must be bugs there now! I’m especially curious how people feel the speed of the application is since it is very javascript and AJAX heavy.

Hope you like the tool and start using it on a regular basis. At least I know I will