EP17 – What Does Your IDE Do For You?
This week Arlo and Erick talk about shortcuts and how IDE type editors can save you time while programming! All programmers should be power-shortcut-users, so get it together!
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Hack of The Week
Arlo talks about a simple technique to scrape data from a website. PHP Simple DOM is a class of choice when Arlo scrapes sites and he explains how to use it in combination with Curl.
What IDEs have to offer
- Shortcuts are KING! The mouse is your anchor.
- save, [copy/paste], select all – basic
- alt+tab, alt + #, alt + w, home/end – moderate
- ftp, version control, multi-desktop, word boundaries – advanced?
- Some argue that IDEs are only for compiled languages
- Their arguments. Haters gonna hate
- You can still step through scripting languages for debugging (xdebug)
- Benefits of an IDE vs Text Editor
- Features from IDEs
- version control
- macros
- terminals
- Grep
- Benefits of Text Editors
- lightweight
- syntax highlighting
- plugins
- What do you like about your current IDE/Text editor.
- grep feature.
What Are My Options?
- Big list!
- Others
- Arlo’s VIM goal

