Category Archives: Ide

PhpStorm sale 50% off

September 12, 2012 9:32 am /

 

JetBrains has their annual sale where they offer PhpStorm for $49. This is a good time to pick up a really good IDE for PHP. I’ve used many different IDE editors for PHP including NuSphere PHPEd, Eclipse, and NetBeans. The standout features for PhpStorm are the speed, cross-platform compatibility (OSX, Windows, etc), and intelligent code completion for classes and methods. It really helps speed up development time when you have a large codebase. Another nice feature with PhpStorm is the built-in Git integration. At 50% the regular price of $99 — its a great deal for $49.

Update 9/20/2012 – Sale ended. They now offer a new $29 academic license option for students.

http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/buy/index.jsp?BacktoSchool

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Coda 2 Plugins for Web Development

July 31, 2012 12:57 am /

I recently purchased Coda 2 after hearing lots of good reviews about Coda 1. After playing with it for a while, it serves quite well as a text editor, FTP tool, and front-end development program. If you have lots of sites to manage, the UI works quite well for switching between sites. The bracket matching feature could be better — I’d prefer a solid color for matching brackets rather than a quick animation over the braces.

One feature I do like with Coda is the plugin extensibility. Here are a few that I’ve found quite useful so far.

HTML, CSS, PHP Validator, minify JS feature, clean whitespacing:
http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/software/coda-php/

PHP Comments (PHPDoc)
http://justinhileman.info/docblock-generator-plugin-for-coda/

View the rest of the plugins here:
http://panic.com/coda/plugins.php

 

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