The other day I was pulling my hair trying to enable rewrite in Ubuntus Apache2. Everything was installed via apt-get and I guess you get a bit spoiled when so much just works without the need to touch it ;) So when my .htaccess with rewrite had no effect I though I had syntax errors. Turns out it was this simple (in your terminal):

sudo a2enmod rewrite

The latest months I’ve been working as an employee with Quanta on Xubuntu, and I love the way snippets is handled in Quanta Plus. They are stored as simple .txt-files, which are created when you drag selected code into the sidebar. The snippets are called “Templates”, which might be a little confusing. They also have a scope – Global, Local or Project. I mainly use Global, so I have all in the same place and can reach them. I then share the with Dropbox, making the snippets available in my OS X and Windows too.