This evening my Mum wanted me to come over to help her with her printer (ink cartridge needed a cleaning cycle). I took the advantage to download a few largish files that I haven't been able to get at home while I'm without broadband.
I've always used a simple text editor for PHP, but it's a bit limiting for the class library stuff I'm trying to work on now, as you keep having to look up the exact syntax of class members, which tend to be a bit more exacting than the simple function calls of old (and there's a lot more of them). So I've been trying out Eclipse, which has a PHP extension. So far I'm well impressed. Coming from a Visual Studio background, it seems to do everything I expect it to, though I've only been fiddling with it for an hour or so. I look forward to trying it out some more and getting into some real coding.
In other news, my keyboard's space bar seems to be dying, and I keep having to go back and insert missing spaces. I need to either get a new keyboard or get into the habit of pressing space with my left thumb (it seems to only be the right side that's going). The fact that the keyboard doesn't have a Euro symbol next to the dollar gives an indication of its age, so it might be time for a new keyboard.
I've always used a simple text editor for PHP, but it's a bit limiting for the class library stuff I'm trying to work on now, as you keep having to look up the exact syntax of class members, which tend to be a bit more exacting than the simple function calls of old (and there's a lot more of them). So I've been trying out Eclipse, which has a PHP extension. So far I'm well impressed. Coming from a Visual Studio background, it seems to do everything I expect it to, though I've only been fiddling with it for an hour or so. I look forward to trying it out some more and getting into some real coding.
In other news, my keyboard's space bar seems to be dying, and I keep having to go back and insert missing spaces. I need to either get a new keyboard or get into the habit of pressing space with my left thumb (it seems to only be the right side that's going). The fact that the keyboard doesn't have a Euro symbol next to the dollar gives an indication of its age, so it might be time for a new keyboard.