Do to the nature of hackers/crackers we have to do better to secure our sites.
Especially Admin and C-Panel accounts.
I actually use to use a memorable password letter number mix, but it simply isn't good enough anymore.
BAD : my3good4pass This can get Bruteforced
GOOD : IxKUozu9EZiA0iWJ3TnQ Good luck hacking that
For a good break down on passwords, check out this post
So here are some great little programs to fix that, so you can have long highly mixed passwords and different for every site.

Pointed out to me by Brainy in the phpBB Weekly Podcast

[11:44:53 AM] <Brainy> Check out KeePass

Well here it is
http://keepass.info/
Excellent little program that can give you all kinds of generated passwords, long, mixed, and store them in a secure database on a locked USB stick.

Works good on my Vista (32) and has 64 bit drivers so it should work there also.
For Mac

mtotheikle wrote:If you are running a Mac I would urge you to buy 1Password. Yes it is expensive, but it is a great program and you can make sure your passwords are strong.

With today's heavy web sites using web applications for their sites, if you are a developer simple tools like Notepad++
are just not enough anymore.

So I thought I would mention some excellent IDE's that are available and I use for PHP, java script and any other large development projects.
These 2 IDE's have editors with support, for just about any popular code development needed for web development.

• PHP
• javascript (including popular Ajax libraries)
• HTML
• CSS
• XHTML
• XML
• Create PHP class files on the fly
• Create PHP Interface files on the fly

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.5
NetBeans has been around for about 10 years. Their new IDE has a ton of feature that are very useful to any developer.
I have only just recently downloaded this one, but it seems very solid and easy to use.
It has a little bit different user interface compared to the others building off of Eclipse
But we will see, 10 years in program development definitely makes it easy to trust.
Home Page: NetBeans Home


Product Version: Aptana Studio, build: 1.2.1.020234

Aptana Studio has quickly become my favorite IDE, the biggest reason is the use of the tab button.
Check this out, in Aptana when you are making a function, class or what ever, when you start the create just like any other development IDE
you have code assist that offers help, but in Aptana there is also this sweet time saving tab feature
so you start a function like

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function site_head($head, $foo) 

As soon as you type the opening ( it adds the last ) and when your done adding your param vars, instead of leaving the
keyboard to click with your mouse to get out of the function, you just hit the TAB button.

Its the same in any PHP

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function foo();
$some_var = ' ';
$some_other_var = "My text"; 

You can Tab over the endings for all of those ' ', " ", ( ), etc.....
That is my favorite feature. Now in the next version version of the PHP plugin they are suppose to add project wide
PHP outlining, this will top it off for PHP development.

It already has all of the most useful javascript libraries built in and a ton of endless features.
Almost forgot, it also creates Getters & Setters for you, another time saver
Check out the endless list of features
Home Page: Aptana Studio Home

Eclipse is another excellent one, but I haven't had a lot of experience with it, although Aptana Studio is built off of its platform.