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Beta 2 is here, and I'm pleased to tell you that we have already fixed quite a list of issues. This release offers both bugfixes and improvements, pretty much all over the application. Have a look in the beta forum, if you're curious about what has changed. Keep up the good work, guys :)

Download TSW SiteSync 2.0 beta 2 - please provide feedback in the beta forum

As mentioned in the first beta post, free licenses will be given to the best betatesters for either TSW WebCoder 2007 or TSW phpCoder 2008 as well as SiteSync 2.0, once the final version has been released.

Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you should wait for the final version.

I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.03 of TSW phpCoder 2008. It comes with a new feature called test mappings:

Test mappings allow you to test one or several files using another URL than the standard, servermapped version. This is especially useful in these cases:

• When you're using URL rewriting and wish to call the re-written URL instead of the actual file
• When you wish to always test a file (or several files) with a set of parameters
• When you wish to debug include files - you can simply call the file that includes it instead of the actual file

Test mappings can be defined on projects, and they support wildcards, which allows you to map e.g. a whole directory of files to a specific URL. A specific toolbar button has been added to the preview toolbar, allowing you to manage test mappings for the active project, if any. Feedback on this new piece of functionality would be much appreciated.

Besides that, TSW phpCoder 2008 version 1.03 comes with the following changes:

• Notices from PHP during debugging will now be handled differently - instead of halting the execution, phpCoder will try to continue and the notice messages will be shown in the application statusbar
• The search/replace dialog was always visible when active, even if phpCoder had been minimized
• Better handling of &$parameters in function parameters
• Better support for constants in IntelliSense and other IntelliSense related improvements
• Fixed a problem with some characters in the error reporting tool introduced in the previous version

To upgrade, simply go to the phpCoder product page and download the application. Install it on top of the previous version, that should cause no problems. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

I'm very proud to announce the first beta version of the upcoming TSW SiteSync 2.0. As mentioned in a previous blog post, this version includes a big number of changes. A lot of the very important parts of the application has been re-written, to support SFTP and FTPS as well as regular FTP, and to gain a more responsive interface. This means that we need a thorough betatesting, which is why I would like to promise a number of free commercial licenses to the best betatesters of SiteSync 2.0. Since WebCoder/phpCoder and SiteSync are such fine partners, the free licenses will cover either TSW WebCoder 2007 or TSW phpCoder 2008 as well as SiteSync 2.0.

Download TSW SiteSync 2.0 beta 1- please provide feedback in the beta forum

I'm really looking forward to hearing what you think of it! This is the first version, so besides finding bugs, be sure to look for things that you would like to see implemented before the final version - I'm open for suggestions :)

Please be aware that this is beta software. It's meant for testing only, and if you don't feel comfortable using software with known bugs and quirks, you should wait for the final version.

This blog post is all about the next version of TSW SiteSync. I'm almost done with my TODO list, which turned out to be quite long. This is a list of the changes I have made so far:

Most important changes

• Support for FTP, SFTP and FTPS throughout the entire application
• More responsive interface - no more frozen dialogs
• Transfers, comparisons and synchronizations can now be canceled
• Watch mode now supports auto-sync and can be minimized to the Windows notification area
• Built-in support for testing wildcard and regular expression based exclusion rules against the files of your site
• Find files for upload dialog - quickly find a specific set of files for upload, based on their filename or their last modified date
• Updated FTP client, with more informative interface and a transfer queue
• The final version will have real documentation, as seen in WebCoder and phpCoder

Minor changes

• More stable transfers. SiteSync will try to ignore non-fatal errors and just continue with the next file, and try to automatically re-connect when a sudden disconnection happens
• See which exclusion rule were applied to a specific file or folder
• Filter exclusion rules can now be imported from other SiteSync sites
• See properties for remote files and folders (including subfiles and subfolders) in the FTP client
• The synchronization dialog now supports doing only downloading or only uploading for a single session, for a two-way site
• Filter options in the exclusion rule dialog - show only files or only folders, for a better overview
• Same application for easy access to application and settings directory as introduced in phpCoder 2008 version 1.01
• Same technology for logging errors as introduced in phpCoder 2008 version 1.02
• A list of minor bugs have been fixed, found by me and a number of dedicated SiteSync users (thank you!)

This is what I have so far, besides the things that are too small to mention. If all goes well, I will have the first beta version ready for you guys pretty soon. If you have any suggestions, then be sure to let me know :)

My good friend Jeff Sabarese just sent me this nifty phpCoder 2008 button. If you feel like linking to phpCoder, and I really hope that you do, this button might make it cooler :)

You can insert it like this:

<a href="http://www.tsware.net/phpcoder.php" title="TSW phpCoder - Advanced PHP IDE"><img src="http://www.tsware.net/images/madewith/phpcoder2008.png" alt="TSW phpCoder - Advanced PHP IDE" style="border: 0" /></a>

I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.02 of TSW phpCoder 2008. It comes with the following changes:

• AutoProposal lists can now be confirmed with the Tab key as well
• Project based include directories can now be recursive, to allow for automatic inclusions of subfolders and thereby files
• A bug, which caused the debug interface to not be changed under certain conditions, was fixed
• A couple of minor PHP Tidy bugs were fixed
• HTML end tags will now be completed with the correct casing, according to the HTML tag settings
• Updates through the database result window would cause an exception if the user didn't have the required rights - a nicer message has been implemented

Besides that, a new error handling mechanism has been implemented. It will pop up instead of the old messagebox, when an unexpected error occurs, and besides looking better, it allows you to see more details about the problem, and even better: Submit them to us with a single click on the mouse. Hopefully this will give me a better overview of which problems still exist, allowing me to fix them faster and better :)

To upgrade, simply go to the phpCoder product page and download the application. Install it on top of the previous version, that should cause no problems. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

I just want to let you all know what's currently going on here at TSW. After a long period where phpCoder was the absolute main focus, it's good to finally have it out. I used last week to get out the first maintenance release, and I'm currently writing down things to fix/change for version 1.02 :). This week I've started something that I've been looking forward to for quite a while now: A new version of TSW SiteSync. I already had a list of at least 20 things I wanted to do with it, both small and big things, with several of the suggestions coming from various users of SiteSync. The biggest change will be more responsiveness. People have been complaining that it locks up too much when working, and I'm dedicated to making this a much more smooth experience. As I work on this, I keep finding small things that I wish to change, so my TODO list has already grown quite a bit. Despite that, I hope to have a beta version out within the next couple of months. There will be lots of changes, so I will once again need the help of some talented betatesters. More about that once I have an actual beta version ready :)

While big parts of this new version will be re-written from scratch, I'm still not sure whether it should be a major release, or just SiteSync 1.10 or something like that. I do have one thing decided already though: This will be a free upgrade for existing SiteSync customers, no matter if it was purchased along with WebCoder/phpCoder or as a stand alone purchase.

I will try to post more information about this new version of SiteSync soon - stay tuned :)

I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.01 of TSW phpCoder 2008. It comes with the following changes:

• Several IntelliSense bugs were fixed
• Better support for the Ctrl+Space shortcut, in various PHP code contexts
• Minor PHP Tidy fixes
• A small bug where an extra / character would be used in a servermapped URL has been fixed
• The address field of the old style interface has been made more flexible, so that it automatically adjusts its size to better use up free space
• Added support for basic clipboard (Cut, Copy & Paste), Undo/redo and Select all shortcuts in IE preview (Mozilla preview does not seem to allow it)
• The font color of the PHP reference listview could get a bit hard to read with certain Windows color schemes
• Find references can now be used on a selected identifier as well
• The Save As dialog now uses path and filename from existing file, if possible
• An extra setting for controlling the PHP AutoProposal list was added, to differ between automatically showing for variables, class members etc. and for identifiers (when you start typing a word). You can turn the last one off, if the AutoProposal list is causing slow typing in phpCoder on your computer
• A bug where the FTP port number would not be displayed correctly in the FTP server dialog was fixed

Besides that, a new option will be added to the Start menu, allowing you to easily manage the settings for TSW phpCoder, without starting the application. This allows you to reset layout, reset all settings, access the various folders and even make a backup of your settings folder.

To upgrade, simply go to the phpCoder product page and download the application. Install it on top of the previous version, that should cause no problems. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

I'm very happy to announce the final version of TSW phpCoder 2008. It can be downloaded from the product page, where I've tried to collect a bunch of cool videos and screenshots, for your viewing pleasure. Go download the trial version of it and I hope you'll all like it :). For those of you who haven't yet seen TSW phpCoder in action, here are the top list of reasons to give it a try as soon as possible:

• Real debugging
• Complete IntelliSense
• PHP Tidy
• Realtime syntax check
• phpDoc support
• MySQL database client
• Along with all the stuff you may already know from WebCoder, like CodeFolding, CodeSnippets, FTP/SFTP/FTPS client, scripting support and much, much more!

Go get it now!

A big thank you goes out to all the betatesters, who have been hunting bugs like crazy for the last 3 months. 3 months, where you guys started almost 300 threads in the beta forum, and where we all submitted almost 1.500 posts in total. Very impressive, guys! I promised to give away 5 commercial licenses for phpCoder 2008, and while you all did a terrific job, I feel that these 5 persons deserves it the most (in no particular order, listed with their forum names):

• amews_aj
• Mobleman
• BlackYell
• iosoftgame
• redndahead

Send me an e-mail through the contact form of this site, and I will make sure that you get your free license. Thank you, betatesters :)

Special note to people with a beta version installed: Unless you allow phpCoder to overwrite your previous settings, you may be missing out on certain fixes, since each beta release usually comes with slightly modified data files, to fix issues where these files are involved.

Final beta 6 has now been released. Only very few bugs were found in FB5, so we are definitely getting very close to the final release. Let's find the last bugs now! As mentioned, I will be giving away free commercial licenses to the 5 most active betatesters at the end of the test, so get busy :)

Download TSW phpCoder 2008 final beta 6 - please provide feedback in the beta forum

Special note to people with a previous beta version installed: Unless you allow phpCoder to overwrite your previous settings, you may be missing out on certain fixes, since each beta release usually comes with slightly modified data files, to fix issues where these files are involved.