If you're developing on a server that has all PHP errors turned off, you can still watch the error log (if you have access to this file). For example on a dreamhost account you could try this:

tail -f /home/account/logs/website.com/http/error.log

As the errors pour in, you will see them come by. Change 'account' to the username you have on dreamhost and website.com to the domainname you host there. If the errors come in large amounts you can filter them by using grep:

tail -f /home/account/logs/website.com/http/error.log | grep -i "search_term"

Now only errors containing 'search_term' will be shown.

Sometimes you have to work with scripts that contain old-style PHP tags. This little snippets fixes those scripts, so they use the new style PHP tags.

find * -type f -exec perl -i -wpe 's/<\?php/<\?/g' {} \;
find * -type f -exec perl -i -wpe 's/<\?/<\?php/g' {} \;