I am currently in love and coding some personal projects using Eclipse PDT with the Zend Framework as foundation. Unit testing is accomplished using PHPUnit.
I love the ability of Eclipse to be extended with plugins so that I can have intelligent code completion and integrated subversion client. To my surprise, Eclipse runs very well on my seasoned 4 years old notebook.
I am a learner by practice so late last year I tried to penetrate the Ruby team at my company. However I didn’t make it because of company re-organization so requisitions were suspended (or something like that). I guess Ruby and I was just not meant to be together.
Zend Framework really helps a lot in building applications really quick minus the bells and whistles of nice graphics. I am incompetent when it comes to creating nice graphics with Photoshop. 🙁
I am relatively very new to the MVC concept but I am very comfortable with it. It was just recently that I realize the importance of unit testing.
I must grab the unit testing concepts very quickly because I have just moved into a new role as a release engineer for a week. 🙂
On another development, I was also doing some Flash ActionScript 2.0 a couple of weeks ago and experimented on the XMLSocket object. The Flash movie connects to a server, and since I needed threading I decided to use Java. Eclipse is also superb with Java codes since I think it was originally meant to be a Java IDE.
Signing off.
Cool! I’ve been using Notepad++ all this while for PHP. For my next project I’ll definitely go for Eclipse PDT on the Zend Framework. Thanks for sharing.
Yea, the Eclipse PDT is an impressive framework. The Zend studio is now based on Eclipse. There are many great plugins for eclipse that can extend it even further. There is also one to syntax highlight Smarty templates.