adanacs

For the last couple of years I've been using

• Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org)
• SVN (http://subversion.apache.org)
• Trac (http://www.edgewall.org)

to develop and maintain my code. It has worked really well for developing in PHP and Java, but with the change to Ruby on Rails, it's time for some new tools. To that end I'm moving to

• Vim (http://www.vim.org)
• Git (http://www.git-scm.com)
• Redmine (http://www.redmine.org)

Since the switch I've found that I've been relying on Eclipse's syntax checking and auto completion far too much. Thankfully the old skills are coming back quickly. I'm also finding that by using a simple text editor I'm more in touch with the code and application that I'm developing without needing the Eclipse "lense" to focus my thoughts into a development area.