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Other people's setup

A couple of week ago I wrote a blogpost that contains all the software, hardware and settings I use. I've seen a couple of devs writing the same kind of post. Here are some of them:

Did you write down your setup as well? Post a link in the comments below! ?

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My current setup (2018 edition)

by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using. IDE I mainly program PHP. Mostly I develop in PhpStorm. Here's a…

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My VS Code Setup

In an absolutely fantastic post Caleb Porzio, engineer at Tighten Co., goes through his VS Code setup. He goes over his extensions, key bindings, must-have settings, ...

I’m using VS Code as my primary editor these days and am really digging it. My setup is by no means perfect, but I've made lots of little tweaks along the way that you may benefit from. I've set up these nifty categories, so feel free to jump around and try stuff out as you go, or come back later and use it as a reference.

http://calebporzio.com/my-vs-code-setup-2/

I've made the switch from PhpStorm to VS Code a couple of weeks ago and have been using it ever since. I like the speed improvements over PhpStorm, the zen feel, the xdebug experience, ... It just feels lighter (and I mean that in a good way) compared to PhpStorm.

If you want to give VS Code a shot too, go watch the free Visual Studio Code for PHP developers course on Laracasts.

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Installing PHP 7.2

PHP 7.2 was released last week. Here's a nice post highlighting the most important changes. If you want to know how to install PHP 7.2 on your system, Colin O' Dell has got you covered.

PHP 7.2 has been released, bringing some great new features and security enhancements to the language such as object type hints, saner count() behavior, and much more. Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.2 on several different operating systems.

https://www.colinodell.com/blog/201711/installing-php-72

Using brew on MacOS it's very easy to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to PHP 7.2. Just run these:

brew update
brew upgrade
brew unlink php71
brew install php72

Please be aware that, at the moment of writing, there isn't a stable xdebug version that works for PHP 7.2. Keep an eye on the xdebug homepage to know when a stable version drops.

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Getting started with dotfiles

Dries Vints does not blog often, but when he does it's very much worth your time to read.

We all have specific ways of setting up our computer. It's all different somehow. The apps we use, our IDE settings, what shell we prefer, what programming languages we work with, the tools we prefer. How on earth are we going to get that specific setup back the way we had it before our computer broke down?

Enter dotfiles.

https://driesvints.com/blog/getting-started-with-dotfiles

You can find Dries' dotfiles on GitHub. Mine can be found here.

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