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First Impressions: Cloud9 IDE + PHP

By On December 25, 2012 · 2 Comments

I love programming, but admittedly I absolutely hate setting up local development environments. I have been using tools like Vagrant and Puppet to help ease the pain, but even then I find it tedious to get a quick project off the ground. This [...]

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Why can’t someone just make a good IDE for PHP?

By On June 29, 2012 · 47 Comments

I think the first “IDE” I ever used for web development would have to be Adobe Dreamweaver (née Macromedia). Ok, so maybe it was Microsoft FrontPage, but that shouldn’t really count. Dreamweaver for the novice held the promise of being able to easily create DHTML animations and [...]

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