Customizing gedit as a Web Developer’s IDE

September 29th, 2007

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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Web Development in Linux (GNOME)

September 28th, 2007

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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Customizing Firefox for Web Development

September 28th, 2007

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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