ondrejd's blog

I had some free time so I’ve downloaded and tried some new pieces of software – Zend Neon Beta, IBM Lotus Symphony Beta, Safari 3 Beta and Flock 1.0 Beta – all on Microsoft Windows Vista (which I tested too – on my friend’s PC). All this software was released during last month so is pretty fresh …

Zend Neon Beta
Zend Neon Beta is new IDE for PHP programmers – it’s based on Eclipse framework and is for free – and what else? Really good support of Zend Framework, support for debugging and profiling your PHP scripts, included PHPDoc, database editing etc…

IBM Symphony Beta
This was a nice surprise for me – I didn’t expected that I like it so much… simple and pretty look (oh my OpenOffice ) and it could open all format which I liked (Symphony cann’t work with new Microsoft Office 2007 files but it can works with OpenOffice files and older versions of Microsoft Office files and it’s everything which I need.)

Safari 3 Beta
I’ve also tested Safari 3 – only because of WebKit render engine – which I missed (for testing purposes) for a long time. I tested only a few pages – but I’ve noticed unpleasant bugs in WordPress editor (inserting link for example). But still is it a fast nice browser with WebKit inside with really nice (and tiny) download dialog.

Flock 1.0 Beta RC3
The last software which I installed was Flock browser – which I heavily used on my previous workstation. Here are some my notes:

• splashscreen added (this I noticed at first )
• completely redesigned My World page and all sidebars (to the better state)
• some wizards (which I’ve tested – such a Self-Hosted Blog wizard) are improved (and simplyfied – in good meaning)
• feeds sidebar still doesn’t remember closed groups