I can’t quite believe how long I’ve lived without the Eclipse IDE. I’ve always been quite proud to walk into an agency with my copy of Homesite 5, it shows I’m old school – I don’t need no fancy code hinting, it’s all in the old noggin!

Anyhow, I downloaded Eclipse about a year ago and installed PHPElcipse. I was put off immediately by the shear size of the application, and decided that if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. So it sat silently amongst my Program Files for a good year or so until I was inspired last week by a colleague to give it another go. Continue reading…