On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 14:09 -0400, Floyd Resler wrote: > On Oct 13, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Hansen, Mike wrote: > > > I'm about to do a lot of work on an existing code base and I think I'd like > > to try an IDE. I currently use VIM for most editing. > > > > What IDE are you using? > > > > What do you like about the one you are using? > > > > Which ones have you tried? > > > > Mike > > > > Good question. I've tried Zend Studio Beta 8, Eclipse, Komodo, and Netbeans > on my MacBook Pro. Netbeans is probably the only one that I haven't gotten > very frustrated with. They are all very good but eventually all but Netbeans > starts to grind to a halt. I love the layout of the Eclipsed-based ones and > would love to use Zend Studio or Eclipse. But, when I spend more time > waiting for the busy cursor to go away than coding, those nice tools don't do > me any good! > > That being said, does anyone else use a Mac and have similar problems? > > Take care, > Floyd > >
Netbeans is the only IDE I've used, but I have to say, it does what I need with a minimal of fuss. It has great integration with SVN (via a downloadable plugin if you're unfortunate enough to still be using Windows to develop) and the only slowdowns I've seen were where the SVN server was difficult to reach. I like the fact that it has good front-end integration too, and not only recognises and code hints for those, but it also recognises things like jQuery. Also, it can automatically insert phpDoc comments with a prompt, which makes it easy to produce standard project documentation. Aside from Netbeans, Kate as a text editor is very good. It's part of the KDE package, and you can get it on Windows as well (although not sure about MacOS) Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
