What is your Programming Environment?

Authored by: yrret on Monday, April 14 2003 @ 12:59 PM EDT

Well, here is my low-end-geek approach.
My host is on Linux, and I am on OSX.
I usually FTP to my site with Captain FTP and use the Edit in BBEdit function to work direclty on files on the server.
If I am working on larger changes or updates I do them locally, then tar them together upload via FTP and expand with the Control Panel provided by my host.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 15 2003 @ 12:19 PM EDT

I do the same with Interarchy and BBedit.

I also have phpmyadmin running on my localhost set to connect to the remote mysql server.

This way I can check out DB tables and develop plugins and the like.

On linux you could probably uses gftp and anjuta the same way.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 14 2003 @ 02:03 PM EDT

vim, scp, rcs, caffeine. (in no particular order)

While editor wars are pretty bad, I would highly suggest something with regexp support, and syntax highlighting.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 14 2003 @ 04:26 PM EDT

I've always appreciated the power of regular expressions.

But their syntax always make me thinks of the tiles of a Scrabble board, combined with a mosiac of ^$%! characters. Similiarly I've never been an active user of Perl or vi. I always spend more time refreshing myself in a reference book than programming. Makes me appreciate the readability of PHP.

Did you just force yourself to memorize the syntax and use it regularly enough you don't forget, or do you have any crutches you could recommend?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 15 2003 @ 12:15 AM EDT

Well, with the regex it is a combination of learning that regexp are really a seperate language, its a language on how to match/parse characters. Then learning the language ;)

I would reccomend mastering regular expressions (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/). It's a great book, It contains a lot of information you might not want, but those are in the later chapters.

I understand that most people just want to jump in on regular expressions there really isnt any better way than to read some.

As for vi/vim I personally have been using vi for over 7 years, using it well for about 5. If you use vimtutor you should start to get the hang of it.

The major hurdle with vi is understanding that it is a mode based editor. You have a seperate mode to edit vs sending commands to the editor. vimtutor should get you started, and if you want to master vi, I would suggest learning the vi editor, also by oreilly (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi5).

I know more boring reading ;) however, if you use vi long enough it pays for itself many times over.

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