Symfony and Eclipse

Probably you've seen that I haven't been posting regularly for the past few days. Well, it's the end of the year, and jobs keep coming. Anyway just want to share something with you.

I've been researching symfony, which is by the way a php framework that is totally cool for a lazy developer like me. It introduces the removal of the thing that I hate most in PHP programming, code repetition. In symfony, we will concentrate more in business logics, rather than other things such as session management. Sometimes I feel like a fool, doing everything again for every systems that I have done. Well, that's how you learn I guess. In order to appreciate symfony, you need to do all the manual PHP programming, again and again. In my case, after I have finished my system at work, I have to maintain it. That's the hard part.

And for editing the source code, I use an editor called ContexT. It looks like Textmate, which is by the way available for Mac only. Textmate is used in the screencast in symfony, so I decided to use ContexT as it is the closest thing to Textmate. But I feel that I need a more powerful editor

Enter Eclipse. This is the IDE that I have been using for learning Java Struts. I find it complicated, steep learning curve, but what the hell, it's free to download. It looks professional, full featured but a system hogger (most probably contributed by Java as the IDE is fully Java based). I cannot use the IDE at work(I only use 2.66GHz P4 with 256MB RAM) unless I only use the IDE! Any other application must be off, oh and Windows Classic Theme all the way. So i integrate Eclipse with symfony, so that I can use the IDE for developing symfony based application. How cool is that? Intellisense anyone? Man it saves my life. Probably in the future I will post a guide to integrate symfony and eclipse although you can find it here. Chuunnnla...

Amyway enough of my rants. See you all later.