Any developer knows the worth of a good IDE increasing speed of software development. Working with PHP for several years now I started to use Zend’s Studio in 2003. Back in those days it was an outstanding product featuring opportunities missing in competitors’ software if any was available.
But today requirements have changed. Supporting available frameworks, a good JavaScript editor as well as JavaScript debugging, additional languages like Ruby have all become must-haves for an uptodate web IDE eligibly called as such. And since I would like to benefit from such revisions I started my quest for an alternative to the currently in-use Zend Studio 5.5, which is including some annoying bugs as well …
