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Settings and Plugins for a Better Development Experience in WebStorm

Let's explore a few settings and plugins I've found improve my development experience and productivity while working in WebStorm.

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The First Five Things to Learn in Any IDE

If you’re overwhelmed by the sheer number of features and key commands in your IDE, try starting with these 5 things. They're some of the best bang-for-your-buck functions.

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Turbocharge Your Coding with Snippets

I don't really like to type, so I use snippets to dramatically improve my coding efficiency. Here's how to get started with snippets & even write your own.

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IDE Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

Text editors are great at just that–editing text. For large projects, I would recommend looking into an IDE. You might be surprised what you discover.

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Take Your Emacs to the Next Level by Writing Custom Packages

How to write an Emacs package with Emacs Lisp, then publish it to MELPA, using the example of a Mocha test runner.

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42 Visual Studio Shortcuts & Commands

I've been using Visual Studio as my primary code editor since 2008. These are the shortcuts and commands I use almost every day.

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Why I Prefer AppCode over Xcode

For the last 6 month, I've had the opportunity to use AppCode as my primary IDE, and it's head-and-shoulders above Xcode.

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Expanding User-Defined Runtime Attributes in Xcode with Objective-C

Changing the borderColor & shadowColor of a UIView and the font properties of a UISegmentedControl in XCode w/user-defined runtime attributes & Objective-C.

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Editing the Future – Light Table, and Atom, and Then What?

A look at what recent programming editor projects (Light Table, Atom, etc.) are trying to deliver and what I'd like to see from them in the future.