[UPHPU] VS.PHP as an IDE

[Jim Anderson]

Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> Jim, I would need to see your system configuration to know why your 
> Eclipse is slow.  Mine is speedy, but it may just be my machine.  
> (MacBook Pro w/2gb RAM)  I really enjoy Eclipse and the SVN plugin 
> (subversion) works amazingly well.
I have run it on a few different machines. The most recent machine being 
an Acer Ferrari laptop w/AMD Turion 64X2 Mobile and 2 gigs of RAM.

One thing that I will say about Eclipse is that they really have tried 
to make it an All Encompassing IDE with its plug-in structure. That 
appeals to a lot of people. Me? I am more of a "Give me 10 apps that all 
do 1 thing excellently" type of guy and less impressed by the "My one 
app rules the world and handles everything" sort of guy. The Heinz 57 
approach usually means that there are a lot more bugs and a lot less of 
the details functionality.

That may seem contrary to my initial post about PhpED, heh, but I hold 
the same argument with it. For example, I much prefer PhpMyAdmin over 
the PhpED built in mysql query UI. I run them both. I only itemized the 
features that PhpED has as points of interest for others. Oh, and I 
really do love the robust way that PhpED does PHP. In my eyes, it was 
designed specifically for PHP, so it rocks for that [even has the 
official PHP help library built in with a simple F1.]

-jim