Why use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?  How will an IDE improve your productivity?  What are some common features of popular IDE's?  Which IDE's are Cross-Platform compatible?  Which IDE's are Open Source?  Please join BostonPHP and Jesse Burns when he discusses his reasons to move from a simple text editor to a PHP/Web development IDE, and the process he went through to make that decision.

This presentation will focus on Cross-Platform Open Source IDE's covering some common features that most IDE's include such as:

• Text Highlighting
• Code Completion
• Code Folding
• Code Templates and
• Integrated Version Control Clients to name a few.

We will also discuss how IDE's can improve programmer and team development. Here is a list of some of the IDE's we will talk about:

• Eclipse with the PDT package PHPEclipse
• Aptana
• Netbeans
• jEdit