We all know that ISPs have a habit of overselling their connections, and this sometimes leads our connections to not be as good as we’d like them to be. Also, many of us have Raspberry Pi’s laying around waiting for cool projects. So let’s put that Pi to use to check on our internet connection! One of the key metrics of an internet connection is its ping time to other hosts on the internet. So let’s write a program that regularly pings another host and records the results. Some of you may have heard of smokeping, which does exactly that, but that’s written in Perl and a pain to configure. So l

We've already blogged about being able to connect to a remote server using the Remote Hosts tool window. We can drag-and-drop files and folders from our PhpStorm project to a remote FTP, FTPS, SFTP server or a local/network folder. The latest PhpStorm 7.1.1 enhances the drag-and-drop behavior to what we are used to from our operating system. (more…)

Recently, we received the following question through Twitter: “What is the easiest way to deploy the changes of your last commit(s) to a remote project?” Let's explore our options! (more…)