I am very impressed with Aptana, but I am a simple Wordpress developer, who uses jQuery, MySQL, PHP, Wordpress and not much else. I am more than pleased with Aptana's support for these, especially after installing bundles and extensions. However, I have all this support for Capistrano, Python, Ruby, things I never use. Aptana is pretty sluggish for me, and confuses me with way more features than I need. Is there any way to remove this functionality?
Aptana is just Eclipse with bunch of custom plugins.
You need to disable or uninstall the plugins you do not use.
Plugin manager is located somewhere in the Help menu.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_remove_a_plug-in%3F
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I've been watching the screencasts on the site and wondering what editor is being used? It looks like vi or vim (which one is it)? And at the bottom of the terminal says "JavaScript-IDE"? (is this a plugin for vi or vim) Thanks!
From Abigail Watson, Meteor expert:
WebStorm is no longer the Meteor-Cookbook recommended Editor or Development Environment.
We now recommend Atom.io since it's a pure-javascript editor, meaning we can extend the Meteor Isomorphic API to the Editor.
(https://github.com/awatson1978/meteor-cookbook/blob/master/cookbook/webstorm.md)
Our Meteor API for the Atom Editor brings Isomorphic Meetor javascript to the editor with autocomplete, code snippets, color-coded grammar, syntax highlighting, and more! Code faster and with fewer mistakes!
(https://github.com/awatson1978/meteor-api)
WebStorm
Webstorm 9 has excellent Meteor support.
For Vim/Emacs
Another option would be to use TernJS and VIM/Emacs as explained by Slava Kim at Dev Shop.
A Good Write up about it here
They're using Emacs, but you can use whatever editor/IDE you want. My personal preference is Sublime Text 2.
As far as I know, there aren't any editors that help you write Meteor code. Meteor is all Javascript, so the only thing an IDE could do is provide auto completion to the Meteor namespace and show you some docs. I think the general consensus is that an IDE like that wouldn't be too helpful at this point, since the docs change so frequently while Meteor is in very early stage development.
Happy Meteoring!
Atom.io. Growing well with community support. Have been using it few days and cannot think of anything missed for my use. The extension package system is pretty neat and available packages is growing quickly.
Codelobster has special plug-in for MeteorJS: http://www.codelobster.com/meteorjs.html
I've been looking for git support for one of the PL/SQL ides that I already use. Maybe I should be looking for a PL/SQL plugin for Eclipse since excellent support for git is already there. Can anyone suggest a free plugin for Eclipse that's as good as PL/SQL support in JDeveloper? I've tried a few existing plugins but most felt like toys compared with JDeveloper.
Take a look at jOra and Toad in Eclipse marketplace.
After 2 (very) painful years of using Wordpress and fighting a constant stream of bugs and vulnerabilities, I've decided I absolutely have to move to a different platform.
What CMSes offer a smooth migration path from Wordpress (I.e, page, post, and comment importing)?
I would greatly prefer a CMS written in ruby or python, so that I can extend it easily.
Thanks!
Free options
Movable Type is another great option for a CMS and it's highly used. I have seen a lot of people that migrated to it from Wordpress without problems.
Drupal has an official plugin to import from Wordpress. It's a great CMS/Framework to work with.
Paid options
I don't know anyone that migrated from WP to Expression Engine, but a quick search showed some good points on it.
VBulletin Suite (which includes the CMS and the forums), is a great tool and ImpEX, their official import tool (no additional charges for that) is great and flawless on transitioning. I have worked for years with VBulletin, it's a great plataform, but never tried on a production scale using their CMS Suite.
Just a simple question:
Would you prefer IntelliJ? If so, what are the Pro- and Cons?
Thx
I'd prefer IntelliJ for any Java project. I'll also point out that ReSharper is a Visual Studio plug-in that provides a lot of the same niceties for .NET. It's also written by JetBrains.
Pros:
Smartest IDE I know. Everything works together. It's not a Frankenstein monster stitched together from disparate plug-ins that don't know about each other.
Best Spring support.
Keeps getting better with every release.
Great integration with SVN, databases, Java EE app servers.
Local and remote debugging with Java EE app servers.
Cons:
Not free. If that puts you off, IntelliJ isn't for you.
Swing UI support isn't the best, but I'm not much of a Swing/desktop developer.
Not Eclipse. If you're a dyed in the wool Eclipse lover you may not like IntelliJ.
I used Eclipse for many years. I liked it and felt grateful to have something so good when my employer wouldn't lay out any money for tools.
Then I changed jobs and was given IntelliJ. I've never gone back. I buy a personal license every year with my own money so I can use it at home and at work. It's an essential tool for me.
In the software projects that I participate developers use either Eclipse or IntelliJ, simply because they are used to either one of them. No one of my collegues switched the IDE yet, so there does not seem to be a "killer application/feature".
I heard that NetBeans is better than Eclipse, especially NetBeans is supposed to be more stable with regard to plugins - this is the only aspect of Eclipse that really troubles me: You either do not find a plugin that you need (I'm still looking for a Maven plugin that actually works) or installing one plugin breaks another.
I have created a desktop app and now I need to install in on a client's computer.
However, the client would like to have a wizard to install. Like Visual Studio setup project allows you to add an installer.
Does Qt allow you to create an installer or do I need to use a 3rd party installer like InstallShield or Wise?
You should use the Qt Installer Framework :
http://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/ifw-overview.html
I use Inno and like it a lot. I've tried a few others and this one worked well for me. (and free)
You definitely need a third party installer. A few good ones have already been mentioned. If you decide to go with a paid solution bitrock's installer is a perfect choice and they are also Qt centric and their main business is around Qt.
As an open source alternative I would suggest NSIS
If you only target Windows, you can use WiX (Windows Installer XML), which can be integrated into Visual Studio and MSBuild, so relatively easy to use. It's free and produces valid MSI files, which may be a requirement anyway.
If you rather need a simple wizard setup, give InnoSetup a try.
I think better to use a third party software like installshield. They are optimized for the packaging purpose and provide much customizable options.
If you have Visual Studio already, you can continue to use a setup project to distribute your application. The tools are built in. This is the technology that WiX "replaced" (more on that later), and it's what I do. It's not an ideal solution, but it gets me an MSI, which is how Windows software should be installed these days. Using InstallShield or something might be better, but to be honest I've never had a good experience with any third party installers. This is why I just stuck with the less-than-ideal setup project; it beats spending a lot on expensive, ugly and often frustrating third party installer creation tools. In short, it's a very pragmatic solution, and pragmatic solutions make sense.
As for WiX: I really don't recommend it at all. It seems like a great idea, but after a few months I found myself switching back to the setup projects. Even though he's been using WiX for a year more than I have been using setup projects, our WiX expert takes twice as long to get anything done. (He's a terrific programmer, too, just a bit blinded by open source.) You end up with thousands of copied text lines that you need to maintain. With a couple different projects, it becomes an unmaintainable mess.
I would not suggest attempting to build an installer in Qt yourself. In addition to having to get a lot of behavior just right, as a Qt application it will require the Qt libraries. Unless you statically link them, which is possible with the commercial edition (not LGPL) but difficult and not recommended. Plus then you'd be including two copies of the Qt libraries in your download.
Qt itself seems to use the nullsoft installer. That alone should tell you building your own is not a good idea. :)