I got some ideas from LinkedPHPers, a group on LinkedIn. There is a discussion going on, “What is the best free application that runs in Ubuntu 9.10 – the Karmic Koala for development of websites in PHP?” My own anser was Quanta Plus or Eclipse PDT for projects and gEdit for lighter/faster edits. But a lot of people mentioned Netbeans. So I’m giving Netbeans a try on my Ubuntu and my OS X machine.

A brief try today I like it, but I think the use of snippets/templates/palettes/macros (different names in different editors for the recycling of code) should be made easier. I like the way Quanta handles them, drag and drop to create but the option for more advanced edit. And stored in a common format like .txt. The whole idea with snippets is to speed up your coding, at least to me. But I still need to check further in Netbeans, as I said I only had a brief look today. So this is NOT a review … yet ;)

By the way you might have noticed I got some new pages up, “Free editors for OS X” and “Free texteditors for Linux”. I intend to continue with Windows editors soon, and the review them all.