Five or so years ago, I was frustrated by my coding environment. I was working on .net web sites and felt like I was fighting Microsoft's Visual Studio to get my work done. I started jumping between Visual Studio, Notepad++, Eclipse, and other programs. With all my jumping around, I was not really happy with my experience in any of them.
I came across an article that encouraged me to invest in my coding tools; that is to pick one program and dive deep into it, find out what it's good for, and try to enjoy it to its maximum, before looking to other tools.
Given that inspiration, I turned to Sublime Text and the myriad of how-to articles and videos for it, and within a month it was my favorite editor. I could list dozens of reasons why you should give it a try, but Daniel Bader has done a great job.
I list several packages that I find crucial to helping my development experience.
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I came across an article that encouraged me to invest in my coding tools; that is to pick one program and dive deep into it, find out what it's good for, and try to enjoy it to its maximum, before looking to other tools.
Given that inspiration, I turned to Sublime Text and the myriad of how-to articles and videos for it, and within a month it was my favorite editor. I could list dozens of reasons why you should give it a try, but Daniel Bader has done a great job.
I list several packages that I find crucial to helping my development experience.
Read more...