About me
Mike van Riel is a Senior Software Developer at Unet BV, an ISP for the corporate segment based in the Netherlands.
With a passion for industry standards and Quality Assurance he loves nothing more than to discuss methods to improve code and ways to 'Do-It-Better'™ in general.
Aside from the regular talk about PHP and web-based technologies he also occasionally tends to write about his personal life, opinions and hobbies.
phpStorm, a true delight to work with
During my career as a PHP developer (hobbyist and professional) I have tried a multitude of IDEs and tools to write code in.
Every IDE I have found thus far did great things but had their downsides. It is with phpStorm that I can send at least some of those problems to the past
Kubuntu and a slow Eclipse
You know you want to do it, the move, from windows to Linux when developing locally. It works like a charm, except for Eclipse when you do not pay attention.
One could wonder, why do you want to develop locally? Well, sometimes (twice a day) I travel by train. And sitting still is very hard for [...]