The way I see it Website development (PHP, JS, MySQL) by Damian Sromek

4Nov/110

PHPCon PL 2011 – how to increase productivity of PHP programmer (Adam Puza)

AutoHotkeyYou can see whole presentation here (in polish). Adam Puza prepared also a page related to that where you can find links to useful tools etc.

So how can we increase our productivity?

  • Use mouse as rare as possible. Try to do everything just with keyboard.
  • Use clipboard manager, eg. ClipX
  • Keep you passwords in one place, eg. Keypass
  • Use shortcut keys, eg. with AutoHotkey
  • Learn IDE shortcut keys. Search files using keyboard, not mouse.
  • Use virtual machines when you have to set up specialized environment to work with some project.

What's the best way to learn shortcut keys?

  1. Do something using mouse.
  2. Next check how can it be done with just a keyboard.
  3. Revert action and do it using a keyboard.

You can read more interesting things out of his presentation.