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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/06/07 21:40
Mike Russell wrote:
> If you work well without a debugger, more power to you. IDE's and debug
> environments are used by skilled professionals all the time, and I hope you
> will forgive me if I suggest that, as experienced and productive as you are,
> you would be even more productive with a *good* debug environment.
I do always try new IDEs and whizzy development tools as I become aware of
them -- Eclipse, Screem, etc -- but none have ever seemed to really help
me in any way. I'm sure if I stuck at them, then I might reap some
long-term reward, but I don't really want to invest the time unless I can
get *something*, maybe just a *little* advantage, straight away. They need
to offer me a carrot.
A decent editor with syntax highlighting is my main tool. If I mistype
something, which I am wont to do, then it will be a different colour than
that which I was expecting, so I'll spot it pretty damn quickly. Having a
locally installed server is a godsend too. And I do virtually all my file
management at the command line. Very simple tools that don't get in my
way, and don't do things unless I tell them to do so. And my comparatively
recent (about 2 months ago) discovery of phpDoc is proving very helpful
too. I've always commented my code fairly well, but phpDoc provides me
with a rigorous framework for documenting PHP files, and gives me an
instant reward (the generated, and very readable documentation).
Different working patterns work for different people -- that's the way I've
found works best for me.
As an aside, as I'm mentioning text editors: I use various combinations of
Nedit, SciTE, Nano and TextWrangler depending on which OS I'm using at the
time, and what sort of edit it's likely to be.
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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