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Top 5 Technologies I wish I'd learned at the beginning

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 12:20pm — Aaron

Some of these things are actually things I learned early in my career, but whatever.

Perl
Perl is a swiss army chainsaw. If it's computer related, and you can't think of another way to do it, you use a perl script. That said, lots of other technologies that are perl inspired have cropped up since I used this one. (Ruby, PHP, etc) So those could serve in a pinch.

Modify Dreamweaver to Open files in Vim

Fri, 12/29/2006 - 4:14pm — Aaron

I use Dreamweaver to edit files on a variety of webservers. It's a pretty handy tool, that has definitely improved over time. The code editor is good, but not great.

One thing that's always bugged me, is that DW won't just open a file as text if it doesn't recognize the extension. So for instance, I wanted to look at drupal's module code today (a .module) file and DW wouldn't open it, even though it was php.

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