John Reel’s Blog

As part of my experiment to be able to work more effeciently, and work off-line, I’ve setup my laptop for coding.  This is also neccessary because the Internet connection in our house keeps briefly disconnecting, making working directly on a server rather challenging.

Mostly so I don’t forget what I did in case I have to do it again, I’m documenting it here:

1) Platform: Apache, MySQL, PHP 4.x using Xampp For Windows.
This is the platform on which we develop applications, so I needed to duplicate it on my laptop so I can run/test the applications we write locally.

2) IDE: Eclipse Platform
I’ve been coding in VI, a unix text editor, directly on our server since 1992.  I’m finally stepping up to an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), and chose Eclipse for now.

3) Debugging: Zend Debugger Eclipse Plugin
For debugging PHP scripts.

4) Javascript Editing/Debugging: Aptana Eclipse Plugin
Aptana has some very interesting tools, which I need to look into more.   This plugin apparently adds jQuery and EXTJS support, which are the two javascript libraries we use in our development.

5) Versioning: Subversion Eclipse Plugin
Still getting this installed, but should have it working soon.

Already have the current side-project I’m working on on the local machine and working!  Now, I just have to learn to use Eclipse!  Shouldn’t be hard.

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