Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Setting a lightweight development enviroment

Aptana Studio was the last web development IDE I used. It's based on Eclipse, so it can be very "overbloated". Furthermore, it's not confortable to customize it sometimes.
For that reasons, I changed my development enviroment recently. My new tools:
  • Geany. Lightweight text-editor with many useful plugins. Cross-platform.
  • NautilusSVN. Nice set of SVN (version control) scripts for Nautilus, Gnome navigator. It tries to mimetize TortoiseSVN for Windows.
  • Meld. Diff utility. Complements SVN functions with a nice file differences display. 
  • and Firefox.
Also I use different virtual desktops for each application. I lose javascript code completion, but I'm yet used to work without it!


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2 comments:

  1. Diego F. GobernaSeptember 14, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    Great! I love lightweight applications and environments :)

    When I was in Linux I used Fluxbox (gnome apps run perfectly). It was extremely lightweight (<300kb!!) and very customizable, and lightning fast (very ugly new website, btw)

    As text editor I used gVim, of course.

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  2. Manel VillarSeptember 15, 2009 at 4:09 AM

    Puedes comentar en castellano, total esto no lo lee ni Di...
    Si ejecutas un programa de gnome con fluxbox, automaticamente carga las librerias (creo), por lo que la ganancia se pierde.
    Estoy intentando cogerle el truco al vim, pero francamente es demasiado tosco para mi.

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