This post is about our PHP programming platform we use to develop scripts and content management systems, the combination of programs installed and Ubuntu operating system we use makes our life simple.

First of all we don’t use Microsoft windows as an OS, it’s really painful to install LAMP on it, there are many tutorials how to do that, but why should you use Microsoft windows as an operating system if you have another powerful OS – Ubuntu linux.  Ubuntu allows you to install apache/php/mysql from synaptic program in just a few clicks.  I don’t have time for all that viruses, antiviruses and paid unstable software mess on windows and I don’t have time for it’s blocking everything updates and restarts and “cntrl – alt- del”.  My Ubuntu installed 2 years ago and updated kernels when it says “update me”, it never blocked any processes and it was never crashed. You can Google Ubuntu vs Microsoft Windows and you will find that Microsoft is better for developers, and their IIS crappy unstable server is better than Apache lol , I think you already know what is SEO, Microsoft knows what is SEO too, they pay lots of money for blogging and articles garbage in Google, but once you learned linux, clean Debian or Ubuntu you will delete Windows xp or vista or 7 forever, and you will understand that everything you found on Google before is just a Microsoft commercial articles.

Well, I’m using windows only for Photoshop sometimes when I need logo or some website graphics, and I don’t have dual boot, I have vmware server installed on my UBUNTU, thats nice to run windows on vmware and once it crashes you are still inside Windows will not destroy your files and running processes, only Photoshop file you didn’t finish yet.

So, what editor we use to develop PHP programs ? I use eclipse PDK (PHP Development Kit ) editor, it is the best free powerful editor you may find online for ubuntu and microsoft windows, if you developing projects with lots of code, you will probably develop it in object oriented manner, if not god knows when your code crashes. Eclipse editor suggests you variables and classes once you declared them in bootstrap or  include/ require functions. It finds errors and it has a very cool interface for CSS and HTML also.

What framework do we use for our development ? Zend framework, it has very good documentation and many working examples. Zend framework makes your life easier when you are developing user registration scripts , when you use lots of forms, it allows high level security with Zend Auth, pagination solutions, RSS classes, API sever classes and many other amaizing features. It is a mother of PHP frameworks. In other words really cool framework.

It’s really easy to upload files via FTP, SSH and webdav with Ubuntu, you can develop your own project on host using eclipse editor.  Ubuntu is a true paradise in time of hardcore developing and you don’t need to think about anything else like microsoft windows developer does.

We are waiting for new versions of Ubuntu – amaizing operating system to update our OS core for free.

Good luck coding and share your Ubuntu experience in comments.