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My WordPress Development environment ยป What’s not in my development environment?

What’s not in my development environment?

Having reviewed the responses so far to the What is your WordPress development environment? question I decided to list the tools that I don’t use in my development environment.

I might even give reasons for not using them.

List updated August 2015, then again Feb 201, and again Aug 2016

Tools I used to use

Object REXX

When I changed development machines I did not reinstall all the tools I was previously using. I no longer have Object REXX installed. Which means I no longer have my super grepping tool; I’m slowly rewriting it in PHP.

Browsers

I haven’t yet reinstalled Safari and Opera.

Version Control

  • Mercurial

I have, but don’t use

  • Cygwin – except for tail and grep
  • Dropbox
  • Skype
  • Any form of cloud backup except what my iPhone uses

I’m considering using

  • PhpStorm v10, primarily for PHP debugging

I need a better solution for

  • Minifying jQuery and CSS
  • Creating localized versions of my plugins
  • Regression testing
  • Parsing code to produce dynamic documentation
  • Creating templates for custom post types

I’ve never used

  • A packaged WAMP installation.
  • Text editors: Coda 2, VI(m), Sublime Text 3, notepad++
  • A Mac – though I do suffer my iPhone and now my iPad
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Grunt
  • Vagrant
  • Tools I’d never heard of until Feb 2014: compass, livereload, measureelt, bootstrap, sketch

Not used since I left IBM

  • Linux on a laptop
  • A virtual machine
  • SCP

Changes since August 2016 ( to Feb 2016 )

  • I tried Zend PHP server very briefly when I was trying to get Xdebug to work
  • My development machine now has a Laravel 5.2 development, which means I also have node.js, bower, angular.js, SaSS ( Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets ) and other stuff I thought I could avoid.
  • I’ve had to reinstall Putty and Pageant in order to use SSH
  • I now use BitBucket with SourceSafe
  • I use WP-CLI very rarely; I have a similar solution with oik-batch. I have a long term plan to convert my oik-batch code to WP-CLI… if it makes sense to do so.
  • I believe that certain parts of Symfony (finally corrected the spelling) are needed by Laravel

Changes since Feb 2016 ( to Aug 2016 )

  • I do have Firefox installed
  • I have a working PHPUnit solution
  • I appear to have a working PHP debugging solution using Xdebug and PhpStorm 10.2
  • I’m very much into doing things with Git; raising Issues for just about every change I make
  • I can even do pull requests
  • I use SSH and Git to manage the source of WP-a2z.org
  • I’m slowly accepting WP-cli
  • I’ve stopped using Laravel

Things that haven’t changed much

  • I’ve stopped using Laravel
  • I’m still very wary of Composer, npm
  • I can’t Grunt
  • I don’t know how to SASS
  • I tried installing Vagrant but fell at too many hurdles
  • One day soon I’ll be trying React JS
  • And then I’ll revisit the REST API
  • I intend to try using Codeception, Travis CI

Published: February 13, 2014 | Last updated: August 29, 2016

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