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Great tips. Thanks.

I also use TotalFinder (tabbed finder replacement) as well as Asepsis (prevents .DS_Store files) from binaryage.com.

I'm a Java dev, flipping back and forth between IntelliJ and Eclipse. Using Eclipse since the pre-1.0 alpha, I still find it more comfortable. But IntelliJ's rate of improvement has prompted me to use it more.

I've become good friends with SSH. We do lots of deploy/ops work at this gig. I'd love to figure out how to put the remote host's hostname into the tab/title/prompt. I haven't tried zsh yet, not excited about putting zsh on all the remotes (which are a mix of Windows and Linux).

Our databases are Oracle, SQL Server, some legacy mainframe stuff. I use Squirrel SQL. I don't like it much. I haven't found any generic SQL clients as clean and smooth as MySQL's Sequel Pro client.

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Putting the remote host in the tab title is easy and included:

https://github.com/roderik/pivotal_workstation/blob/master/t...

As for the prompt, also included in the bash-it theme

https://github.com/roderik/bash-it/blob/master/themes/roderi... screenshot: https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/16780/35890/82d9d2fa-5290-...

I also use TotalFinder, but it seems this is one where my discipline didn't hold up, i installed it by hand :)

Eclipse should be easy, and IntelliJ is almost the same as phpstorm, the recipe for that is in the repo.

"I'm a Java dev, flipping back and forth between IntelliJ and Eclipse. Using Eclipse since the pre-1.0 alpha, I still find it more comfortable. But IntelliJ's rate of improvement has prompted me to use it more."

I think you get it really backwards... Back in the days IntelliJ was just soooo much more better than Eclipse it wasn't even funny to compare the two. It was just plain sad.

But... As a lot people predicted, Eclipse being Open Source and IBM having put some of its weight behind it, Eclipse started to get quite good.

Nowadays Eclipse as nearly caught up and it's just a matter of time before Open Source, once again, shall win.

It hasn't prevented me from buying IntelliJ at 70% during their doomsday sales.

Anyway the "rate of improvement" you're talking about is definitely on Eclipse's side (and this come from some using IntelliJ since version 3 or 4, don't remember), not on IntelliJ.

IntelliJ is still banking on its slight edge, but as time passes by that edge is eroding more and more...

>I think you get it really backwards... Back in the days IntelliJ was just soooo much more better than Eclipse it wasn't even funny to compare the two. It was just plain sad.

I beg to differ. Eclipse always had a better model of the project and workflow for me. Never could tolerate IntelliJ.

Now, IntelliJ indeed had _more_features_, at least back in the day, compared to Eclipse. But I always found the implementation cluttered and confusing.

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