Alfreido's Blog

I switched over to Linux at work recently, mostly due to our servers running on Linux and the opportunity of directly interfacing with the servers made my job a hell of a lot easier. No longer being able to use my trusty Macromedia Dreamweaver to do my work, I had to try out a couple of different PHP development solutions until I found the one that was right for me and could keep up with me.

And the winner is… VIM.

After playing around with software which promised the world, some which didn’t deliver, I grew to like the hidden simplicity of VIM. The development team leader at my work urged me to work with VIM, as it was the most simple and yet most powerful system to develop PHP with, and after so many functional but flawed pieces of PHP software, I’m inclined to agree with him. Here’s a couple of different PHP development solutions I tested in my search for a PHP editor and the pros and cons of each that I found. It should be noted that in each time, I fell back to VIM to complete my work when the PHP software was fighting with me to keep me from doing my work. Read more »