Micah Carrick

As a web developer and programmer, I prefer to use a powerful text editor over WYSIWYG software. I write code using HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, etc. The standard text editor that comes with GNOME is much more powerful than you may know. This article is written to illustrate how you can configure gedit for use as a powerful, stable web developer's text editor.
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I see people asking around in the forums quite often about which tools to use for web development in Linux. Here are some tools and instructions for setting up your gnome-based Linux distributions to handle all your web development needs.

I won't be discussing any commercial software here. Just the open-source (free) stuff.
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One of my most valuable tools as a web developer working in Linux, is Firefox. I think I can safely assume that you're familiar with the Firefox web browser if you're reading this post. However, you may not be familiar with some of the tools to assist you in created your web pages.
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Anjuta is a nice programming IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Gnome. I use it for C and GTK+ programming. Today I installed version 2.2.1 on my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn distro running AMD64. This isn't an extensive installation guide, but instead just a couple of notes on possible hang ups.
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I spent the weekend moving this website from it's Joomla-based article format to this Wordpress-based blog format. The reasons for this include SEO, aesthetics, and ease of use. It will be much easier for me to keep up to date with information and source code I want to share if it's in a more casual, blog-like environment.

Over the next couple weeks I will be ironing out all the problems that have occured in formatting due to the conversion and hopefully import the comments from the previous site.