This isn’t a blog about why you should use Vim. That’s obvious. If it isn’t, read Why do those nutheads use Vi? Instead, this a tutorial about using Vim as a fully-fledged IDE, and specifically for PHP projects. Many Vim users … Continue reading
Vim is a lot more powerful than people think. Many people who use it would do so just for quickly editing a single file, but would use an IDE for their main development. But I’ve discovered recently that Vim is … Continue reading
Over the past few months I’ve been secretly working on a Jenkins plugin, partly because of my love for the chipper butler and all his efforts to improve the quality of your code, and partly because I wanted to take … Continue reading
I’ve been a Vim user for a couple of years, and love it. After a steep learning curve, your coding speed increases dramatically. As good as IDEs like Netbeans and Eclipse can be, the normal operations – navigating round the … Continue reading
If you’re a regular user of Netbeans IDE then, like me, you might sometimes get the feeling that you’re not using it to its full potential. Take debugging for instance: did you know that you can use Netbeans to debug a … Continue reading
Git submodules are a way of linking to a repository inside another. For example, if your project needs to use someone else’s project that’s hosted on Github then you can use it as a submodule rather than including all the … Continue reading