Everybody Shut Up

I am finally fed up enough with the usual Friday chattering and slacking at work that I have turned on Launchcast to try to tune them out. Music is not a major part of my life, so I almost never do this; I also have it incredibly low – I almost can’t hear it when I’m typing on my clickety keyboard. And yes, I am aware that I am sucking bandwidth, but they’re all just gabbing anyway rather than using their computers.

I am disappointed, because I forgot that the PHP editor I was using was not shareware – it expired after 30 days. I liked it because it was almost an IDE – it had a web server built in, so all I had to do was install PHP on my machine and I could view my work right in the program. It’s 35 euros ($41), though, and I’m not at a point where I can justify that. I do occasionally buy software, and if I were really skilled with PHP I would purchase this editor, but I’m still messing around with it. So now I can use either HTML-Kit or TextEdit and upload work to my site to test it, or I can just edit the stuff right on the site (I use a locally-installed version of net2ftp), but that would be bad because there would be no syntax highlighting. And I like syntax highlighting! PHP Expert Editor’s was the best, but the other two at least have it as an option. But oh hey, I just looked at the HTML-Kit plugins – there’s a whole lot that make PHP development easier. Okay, so I will probably use HTML-Kit even though I find all the buttons and menus somewhat overwhelming. Still doesn’t have a webserver, but it’ll have to do.